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Ok the code works fine but its all unnecessary. The code is actually not meant to be a lock out command. If what you are doing is trying to put a lock on iexplorer then go to control panel and set up parental controls. Or for another solution go here m if you don't know how to mount on a virtual dri...

Ok ya steam was probably a bad example. Notepad works normally of both computers. Taskkill works only on the laptop. I can not kill any program with task kill on my desktop. I think you are right and some files must be messed up so taskkill is not working. Thanks for the help anyways.

Thanks for replying but thats not the problem. I tried your suggestion and still got the generic error. Also it works on my laptop with no problem and they both are running the same version of windows.

Thanks for the help but thats not it steam was just an example. Taskkill won't kill any task even notepad. BTW steam is a program for games(best program ever). http://www.steampowered.com Steam itself is free but the games are not.

Thanks for the help.

replace the 5 of (if "%userinp%"=="5" goto unlock) with any number or letter the rest of the code should work except the taskkill /F /IM iexplorer.exe /T there was a typo, replace iexplorer.exe with iexplore.exe if your not using iexplorer then replace that app with the name of y...

Nope I have the same version of windows vista on both my computers. I am not really sure what the generic error is. Here is a picture.

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/2742/failuregr.jpg

Its very strange.

This is probably not what you want to use but here it is anyways @echo off cls :beg set /p userinp=enter password: set userinp=%userinp:~0,1% if "%userinp%"=="5" goto unlock goto beg :unlock taskkill /F /IM "C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Pr...

On my laptop i run this code and everything works fine but on my desktop I get a generic error, any thoughts?

@echo off
taskkill /F /IM Steam.exe /t
pause

Is there any way to adjust the text size from code within the batch file.

thx for the help

How do I make this automatic so that no one has to enter a password so it would replace the password and password confirmation with code that would automatically type in a password.

@echo off
net user %username% *
password
password confirmation
exit

Thanks for the Help

My code is set up as a simple test. I want to take the wrong answers and have the batch file calculate the score out of 100. Here is my code. @echo off echo 1: Take Test echo 2: Exit set /p userinp=choose a number(1-2): set userinp=%userinp:~0,1% if "%userinp%"=="1" goto ...

If I want to use this on multipul computers can the Z be changed to "%~dp0"