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A Batch is not an OS. You can try using Hiren's Boot CD mini XP. Any batch file can be placed on StartUp menu folder and will be launched at startup.

Some time ago, I made a batch VID2MKV.BAT for merging all Video files with corresponding Audio files on a folder and generating MKVs (small side part of VirtualDub batch deshake project). Just added filename as title now. It can take any video extension for video input, and any video/audio file exte...

I don't like attrib line, will make all documents read only, I would change +r to -r there.

Thanks Siberia-Man , your code doesn't work if TEMP folder includes (). Here's a slighly simplified version, based also on jfl , skips an "if", doesn't need delayed expansion and allows easy testing. Won't work if TEMP folder has # on it (one could choose another unused valid character on dummy "yes...

Good catch jfl , can you please try replacing ? with : in delimiter, that will possibly work in all languages, because : is not a valid path/filename char so it's present in exactly two places leaving (Y/N/A) section isolated. The other idea I had is to use an uncommon char (not used in temp path) i...

This is Debham code perfectioned to use TEMP folder and two steps: First isolates prompt section (using ? as delimiter) from path name (solves special TEMP folder names), and then parses that as before, tested on XP and win 7: @echo off setlocal copy /y nul %TEMP%\test.tmp >nul for /f "tokens=2* del...