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Nice. But I want the OS architecture -- not the physical architecture. It's for assigning registry values. I need to distinguish between using the HKLM\Software directly or using HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node. Right now I'm using: :: onlyWin7 and noWin7 identify Windows 7 machines. set onlyWin7=rem ver|...

Anyone know of a little utility or something that can reliably/easily determine OS and architecture? I would only care about win 2000 server, XP, and newer. Here's something that I think would not be completely reliable: m Most notably, %processor_architecture% will show x86 if you're using the wow6...

xcopy /d: ??

I think that should work -- if you can figure out the correct syntax. I strongly prefer robocopy--but you'd have to install it on workstations.

Oops -- I messed up the tokens part. You'd have to specify a max. number of tokens for it to work. In this case, I think 2 would work: *untested* cd /d "d:\documents and settings\.....\test" for /f "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b *.csv') do ( for /f "tokens=1,2 delims=0123456789&q...

First, get rid of the "@"'s and turn echo on and see what it's trying to do. Second, I'm not sure that the first for loop works with embedded double quotes. (But I'm not sure -- I've never tried the way you have it.) I would do: *untested* cd /d "d:\documents and settings\.....\test&q...

Post your code so we can inspect it. You may be defining switch incorrectly, or you may be calling it from inside a for loop or if statment . . .

aGerman -- not sure about languages nor OS versions, but here's a trick for (XP English)regional settings: for /f "skip=1 tokens=2-4 delims=(-)" %%a in ('"echo.|date"') do ( for /f "tokens=1-3 delims=/.- " %%A in ("%Date:* =%") do ( set %%a=%%A&set %%b=%%B...

All variables inside the parentheses will be evaluated at the time the entire block of code is called -- NOT after the variables' values are changed. Classic reason to use delayedexpansion: @ECHO OFF setlocal enabledelayedexpansion SET AA=****************** SET C1=THIS IS THE RIGHT LINE SET C3=........

If it's not too long then basically instead of echo'ing the stuff into the file one line at a time -- use a set command to append the stuff onto a variable and then echo that variable into the file. I *think* it would be these lines: for /f "tokens=2,3 delims==" %%a in (%foolist%) do set f...

Unlike the first 2 ideas, this code *should* process faster as it will only process the first line of the file and then continue on to the next file (instead of looping through the entire file just to get the first line). I can't comment on aGerman's code, since I frankly haven't figured out how it ...

set a = something That includes a space in the name of the variable: echo %a% is nothing. echo %a % is something So change to set /p a= with no space before or after the "a" Later: if %a%==%1% is referencing a variable named "1". I believe you want: if "%a%"=="1&qu...

I would create the .cmd file and then add it to a login script. Not completely automated, but you just need to login to those 100 computers and let the script run. Looks like you've already got most of the commands you'd need for a .cmd file. removing software -- you can probably use msiexec /x to u...

Perhaps slightly more efficient than aGerman: If you're CERTAIN that it's on line 3, then: for /f "skip=2 usebackq delims=" %%a in ("d:\apps\cat\dat\cit_date.dat") do set "yourVar=%%a"&goto continue :continue echo yourvar=%yourvar% The "&goto continue"...

If you have the ability to use a network program for monitoring --

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Also, since %temp% could include spaces:

start "" "%temp%\results.vbs"