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Hey folks, got a user on the other side of the states were having trouble remotely controlling. I'm aware of the dos command: RunDLL32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL timedate.cpl,,/Z Mountain Time But how would I run something like that remotely? I see W32tm command as well, but not sure what syntax...

Dang, duly noted. Was hoping there was some internal encryption command that can read / scramble a password.

Hey folks, just looking for the syntax for adding a login requirement inside the batch. I want to restrict the allowed login to 1 technician on our domain, and we all have admin privilages. Ideas?

Ok that command was a little too much, I found this instead: systeminfo | find "Windows XP" if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto WinXP systeminfo | find "Windows 7” if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto Win7 Only issues is, if I tell it to go to any one of those points, I have 11 different options in my men...

Noted. 30 minutes now messing with the FOR command and can't seem to get the syntax right. This is where I'm at: For /D "Users==" %i IN C: DO @echo Successfully found the Users folder. "Users==" was unexpected at this time. Anyone mind providing the correct context? Not sure how ...

Learn something new every day. Wow. So would it look something like this: :1 @echo off if VER=Microsoft Windows XP | RENAME "C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Thomson Financial\Thomson ONE\Workspaces" Workspaces.%DATE% if VER=Microsoft Windows Vista | RENAME "C:\Us...

I have a batch I'm working up that offers a number of choices via a dos window menu for the end user to choose. These options perform a wide variety of operations in regard to PC maintenance / tune up. A lot of these operations are OS dependent, where I have to modify the directory on the command li...

ABC, this is fantastic. I will report back with how it turns out in our environment.

You rock.

Well found a work around, seems to be working. :loop Sleep 3 TASKLIST /FI "IMAGENAME eq explorer.exe" /FI "MEMUSAGE ge 6000" | find /i /c "explorer.exe" if errorlevel 1 goto :loop if errorlevel 0 goto :announce :announce echo MSGBOX "Internet Explorer is not respon...

Trying to keep something running in the background to monitor the memory usage (as seen in Process in Task Manager) of a specific process and when a specific size is met to create a dialog box with a message. So it would simply loop until it's found. I've tried several variations to no avail. Anyone...

Not a problem abc! Thanks for taking your time to help with this. With c$ I mean: example: \\10.167.2.126\c$ or example \\10.167.2.126\c$\Program Files\Internet Explorer Running that ^ at the Run prompt. Windows automatically uses the domain/username and password credentials that are currently logge...

abc, thank you for the response! The Analysts require a domain/username and password. We primarily use c$ for any ftp, and they have admin rights to these machines. The reason we need to find out if "certain" software is installed, is usually for imaging purposes. If the HDD needs to be re...

Hey folks, another DOS Batch inquiry, our help desk analysts often need to retrieve certain data from XP machines on our network. This typically involves remoting into the machine (using a third party remote control app) and navigating throughout the windows GUI to gather the information. I'd like t...

Hey folks, new guy here, I'm pretty familiar with Batch techniques but not quite this familiar - so I'm hoping for a bit of insight. 1. Can batch files be used for web page redirection(it's basically a make shift filter until we get approval for something else) over a local network? I'm a jr Desktop...