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It displays in the console, and I could not find an eventlog that had anything to do with the problem I am having or a similar error. That was one of the first places I looked. And yeah those two links were easily in the first 5 I visited looking for a solution. I find lots of similar issues, but no...

There is nothing on the path that would conflict with Taskkill.exe And again, Taskkill /? works fine. This is very frustrating because it was working fine for over a year and now the command has suddenly stopped and I think it may be due to an update or something, but I can't seem to find anything o...

I'll give that a shot Foxdrive just for process of elimination, but everything was actually working fine until a month ago.

Add the two double quotes shown below. if that doesn't change the error, rename the batch file to a different name and try it. @ECHO OFF TASKKILL /F /IM PPTVIEW.EXE start "" "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\pptview" "D:\PRESENTATION.pptx" /MAX exit /b The se...

So I've got this batch script that has been working forever. There is a large monitor displaying a power point presentation. I've got a few night time clerical folks who update the power point with new info on a regular basis and the batch file is to take away the technical aspect for them. All they...

Try this if you want to separate the files. Using nested IF/ELSE can get a little convoluted, so I'd stick to the multiple IF statements until you feel more comfortable... @echo off setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion (for %%a in (*.txt) do ( for /F "usebackq delims=" %%b in ("%%a") ...

Thanks aGerman. I knew it was something simple I was missing. Can't believe I didn't spot that.

I've got the following batch file, with a bunch of XML files in a directory. The output I need is: Date,Dealer,Account I'm getting date from the directory listing. Dealer is within the XML file itself with a tag labeled as <Dealer>1234</Dealer> Account is part of the filename Accountnumber_VerylongU...

I'm not sure you are in the correct forum considering you mentioned that you are writing a "really big program" But just in case you are actually writing a batch script, I'll point you in the right direction... Reg.exe is the commandline registry editor so you'll use it to import/export ke...

I also had to change the date substring to 10,4 instead of 6,4.

I'm with you Alan, to my knowledge you can't "Set" your environment permanently. The registry is my preferred method of saving user specific permanent data that I need to access via batch. We'll have to wait for Podde to respond, but I get the feeling, that there is a delay between script1...

What he's saying is that the cmd environment is not saving his variables from one instance of cmd to the next. The original batch file that unrars the app has all of that information, but later if that application needs an update, it's very possible the path has changed and the update script has no ...

Put it in a FOR /L Loop like this:

I wonder if quoting the LF character would fix anything... I don't have time to continue messing with it right now, but I will run some more tests this evening or tomorrow morning.

Arrrghhh...

A Co-Worker asked what I was doing and as I was explaining it to them, I started getting the bug even with only using the last two lines, which previously and consistently was avoiding the bug...