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So I have an interesting puzzle. I am working in a virtual environment and I need to be able to resize the Quick Launch bar to the right of the Start button on the taskbar dynamically based on the number of icons a user would have. Ideally I would like to run a simply batch file that would run at st...

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I work in a domain environment. I write a lot of little batch files to do simple installations of MSI often with MSTs. I have noticed I am constantly long handing the server names from which I am installing files in my batch files. We have some pretty serious standards in place that make me think th...

I need to install three separate .msi with .mst transforms. After the first .msi/.mst installation I need the machine to reboot before proceeding to install .msi 2 & 3. I cannot do it as a scheduled task, and I cannot set it in the startup menu as it is crucial that it runs as an administrative ...

Excuse me. That would create a text file with that information in it. Additionally it would make the file name the current date.

To make a folder I assume you could use the md (make directory) command with the same variable %filename%

Pretty simply really set filename=%date:~0,14% echo This sentence will end up in a text file on the C drive called %filename% >> "c:\%filename%.txt" Rather than echo in the above example you can simply send whatever you want from the command line to that file. for example: set filename=%da...

Does batch have a way to deal with remainders?

I am making a calendar in batch that will account for leap years. I want to take the date and divide it by 4. If it has a remainder then it is not a leap year, if it does not then it is a leap year. I cannot find any way to draw out the remainder.

So I have a program that will send out a .bat file to computers on my domain and execute them once they arrive. I have a single login for all of the computers on my domain that I want to use to login and then run the rest of the batch file. Is there code that would allow me to login to a machine thi...

You're sharp. Thank you so very much.

Unfortunately I cannot take the risk of putting it just in all users. It actually has to be in each and every profile on the machine individually. (I am actually replacing an old shortcut which has been place in each profile by a now obsolete program which was designed to do this exact thing.) As mu...

So I am wanting to copy a shortcut to an individual user's profile. I currently have a batch file that will allow me to find all of the usernames on my local machine. What I would like to do is to then use these usernames that this batch comes up with to apply a shortcut to the individual user's des...

The remote part is not the issue it is testing the variables that were just created. As an example when I run the batch file you created above I get: userVar1=Administrator userVar4=All Users userVar5=Default User userVar6=LocalService userVar7=NetworkService userVar8=setup userVar9=mainuser1 userVa...

What about testing the variables dynamically. For example I am on a domain network. I am looking specifically to remove an icon that has been placed on individual users desktops. I do not really care about the administrator, localservice, setup etc... users. However some machines only have one user ...

DOH! I'm a butt. echo %userVar7%. All set here. You are wonderful. Thank you my german friend.

So this works to put each of the usernames into a variable. Now why can I not reference them.
For example I cannot "echo userVar7" and get the seventh entry.