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It has nothing to do with the title command. The currently executing command is always added to the window title, until it completes, and the pause command is running until you press a key. You can see this by opening a fresh command prompt and executing the pause command by itself.

Notepad in Windows 7 behaves this way as well, which I almost didn't expect, since I know there were changes between Windows 7 and 10 (regarding how Notepad handles Unix text files, in particular). Windows 7 Notepad does allow you to select the encoding when you open a file. Note also that if you cr...

That almost sounds like you entered it on the command line, rather than running the batch file. It's going to behave differently in each case. Alternately, did you accidentally type a third %? This is not the place for help with the 7zip application, but check what the command line switches being us...

If the files have a date stamp in their name, you can have your batch file determine the date and use it as part of your mget line. If they don't, you'll have to connect once and output the results of a dir command to a text file, and then parse the dates from that file to create a list of files and...

Turn echo on, or replace the del command with echo, to see what exactly is different between the lines that work and the ones that don't. That should give a clue as to what needs to be changed.

I suggest adopting a file naming syntax that uses leading zeroes to pad all numbers to the same digit count. You probably also want to sort the file list before doing anything where you care about file order, even that Type command at the end. Newer versions of Windows Explorer do a smart sort on nu...

EDIT: It won't be pretty, but I'm going to individualize the loops & continue labels to each conversion. I *think* that's where the current problem lies. Yes, I'm fairly certain your problem comes from having multiple identical labels. There are several ways to make it more elegant, but before opti...

I changed the 'goto end' on the mp4 to go back to check for wmv and the goto on the wmv to go back to the file check in case there are multiple files to convert. And does it still appear to hang the computer with this fix? I was going to place a 'start /wait' instead of 'start "" for each conversio...

If a .wmv file exists in the workdir, your code is potentially looping back on itself and checking for .wmv files again. I'd expect the .wmv files to have been moved to the Processed directory, so this doesn't happen more than once... unless they are still locked by the conversion program. There are...

... executing "C:\Windows\notepad.exe", you get that different icon. I just tried that, and it sure does. That's so weird, especially since it's a hardlink, effectively pointing to the SAME file! >fsutil hardlink list C:\windows\notepad.exe \Windows\notepad.exe \Windows\System32\notepad.exe \Window...

I'm not sure if this is still possible with Windows 10, but in earlier versions you could change the 'shell' program, the main one that was launched as the GUI. By default, it's explorer.exe, but you could change it to cmd.exe to only get a command line, or to any specific program/batch file of your...

You said there's no network connection, but there's still almost assuredly a network adapter present, right? In that case, you should be able to get the MAC address, which will still be unique.

I didn't try running it, but it looks like it's only testing and outputting the value from the previous loop. LAST is getting set to C-12528180 only at the very end, and then the loop is done, there are no more tests to check if it should be output. You need one more instance of your output statemen...

That batch file doesn't appear to be making use of using any command line parameters. If I'm reading this right, you seem to be expecting the command line parameter to get piped into the set /p, but that's not how it works.

Is the code you posted part of a larger block enclosed in parentheses? If so, you need to use delayed expansion and use !a! instead of %a%.