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Because c:\program files\microsoft office\office14 is not part of the PATH variable you would need the full name. The START command could work without path and it's probably a better way (because it makes no sense to keep the batch window open). start "" /max "%theprogram%" And (...

But the ECHO command shows the right files? In this case it could be that you've got file names with spaces. Try to enclose the variable in double quotes. @echo off for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /a-d /b *.txt') do ( for /f "delims=" %%b in (' findstr /c:"hey" "%%a&...

Hmm, works for me. Please give an example for testing.

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aGerman

The following code displays .txt files of the current directory which contain 111 AND 222 AND 333. @echo off for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /a-d /b *.txt') do ( for /f "delims=" %%b in (' findstr /c:"111" "%%a" ^>nul ^&^& findstr /c:"222" &quo...

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Wait. There is no message at all if it succeeded. This is a point we could exploit.
This line works for me and I think it should work on XP too:

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Well, in this case I suppose there is no safe method to find out if it succeeded or not.

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aGerman

@BrentNewland
Your positive feedback is enough donation. Glad I could help.

@ChickenSoup
Did you check if shutdown returns an errorlevel on XP?

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aGerman

@ChickenSoup On my computer (Win7) this doesn't work because the message is written to stdErr. But this would process the message because it is redirected to stdOut: FOR /f "tokens=*" %%a IN ('shutdown -a 2^>^&1') DO SET shutdownstatus=%%a But also this doesn't work for me because my e...

Try this:

2>nul eliminates outputting of error messages by redirecting to NUL
&& associates the following command if the previous command was successful (errorlevel 0)

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aGerman

Um, sorry ... what is the meaning of your last post
I don't get it.

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aGerman

Try: @echo off &setlocal if exist style.ini for /f "delims=" %%a in (style.ini) do set "%%a" if not defined color ( setlocal enabledelayedexpansion set /p "color=Enter a color combination: " color !color! >style.ini echo color=!color! endlocal ) else ( color %color%...

Show me the content of your INI file and your batch file (both enclosed in code tags). Otherwise I'm not able to see where it fails. As I said, the example worked for me.

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aGerman

Hmm, works fine for me.
Did you change the Test.ini according my example? What is the output?

BTW: Why did you translate code or the content of files?

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aGerman

Test.ini color = fc color = ab Don't use the same value for different data and be careful with white spaces (also in your batch code). Test.ini color1=fc color2=ab ReadIni.bat @echo off &setlocal for /f "delims=" %%a in (Test.ini) do set "%%a" echo %color1% echo %color2% pau...

what does "||" If pushd fails then goto :eof (quit the batch) will proceeded. or "& setlocal" You probably don't need it. It's just to protect you from wrong values if you run several batch files in the same environment (e.g. by dropping them onto a a command prompt). and &q...