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nnnmmm wrote: ↑

20 Sep 2023 20:59

i found this line in website set __COMPAT_LAYER=WIN98, but i dont know how to use it

That's the entire command; there's nothing else.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/378 ... 3#37881453

Traditionally you right-click the application, go to Properties, go to the Compatibility tab, and pick the version you want compatibility with.

Windows 11 doesn't let you go older than Vista, so you may want to check out https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/ instead.

There's a registry setting you'll have to change because it's not enabled by default: https://superuser.com/a/1300251

It almost sounds like you installed an older version of Windows that doesn't support VT100 sequences.

Well you need to press any key twice because the first key ends the timeout command and the second key ends the pause command.

Very odd that timeout doesn't care about the w key though.

The interpreter moves things around before it gets executed, so the line that actually gets run is You can see this by running your line by itself in a script with no @echo off

In my experience, people choosing custom colors in the options is extremely rare (in the thirty-odd years that I've been using a computer, you're the only person I've ever heard of who's actually done it). I wouldn't worry too much about other people changing their colors. Also, it isn't possible to...

Correct, the values of the color command are indices of the array of colors that are normally set in the registry, which you've changed in your settings.

Nice, I'm glad someone forked Frank Westlake's code.

There are several options available, but makecab is probably your best bet. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/280 ... s-with-bat

Why are you parsing the output of type? You can just interact with the file directly in the for loop. for /f "usebackq delims=" %%A in ("PCNAME.txt") do shutdown /s /f /t 0 /m \\%%A (note that I'm assuming that the PC names don't have the \\ prefix in the text file that they need to be passed to the...

Why do you even want the "There was nothing to delete" message? Whether there was or was not anything in the folders before the script was run, there is currently nothing in the folders after the fact. The message is useless.

wmic adds an extra carriage return (\r) at the end of its output (see https://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4266 for more details). A carriage return moves the cursor to the beginning of the line, so Processing Drive:[ is displayed, then the cursor is moved to the start of the line, and ...

Have you considered briefly glancing at the top right corner of the webpage to make sure you're logged in before trying to post?

Delete the folder instead of emptying it, then use if exist to see if the folder is there. dir will always return something when it's inside of a folder that exists, so it's always going to return an %errorlevel% of zero.