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Yes I did notice your edit.
EDIT: still cannot solve problem yet.

Took a break from this issue due to commitments. Anyway, I tried and the only thing I have displayed is "Press any key to continue..."

They are chinese words. Some are traditional chinese, some simplified. But I have some japanese songs too.
Here's an example of how the 1st output should be:

Sorry for late reply, my net was down for couple of days. Do you mean it will look like this? @ECHO OFF SET currentfolder="%cd%" CD .. SET upperfolder="%cd%" IF %upperfolder:~-2,-1%==\ SET upperfolder=%upperfolder:\=% CALL SET folder=%%currentfolder:%upperfolder:"=%\=%% CD %...

Thank you for replying.
How do I do that and how does it help?
I tried understanding your code and running it but I still don't really know what it does.
Sorry I only have very minor programming knowledge and close to no knowledge on DOS, etc.

hmmm... I'm still working on this... special characters are tough ! In the mean time here is the new code fixing a bug when started from the root of a drive: @ECHO OFF SET currentfolder="%cd%" CD .. SET upperfolder="%cd%" IF %upperfolder:~-2,-1%==\ SET upperfolder=%upperfolder:\...