Best trick 2 avoid control-break(Terminate batch job) prompt

[jeb]

How you can use XCOPY for keyboard input? Never known that.

dostips: how to display password in asterisk

The main part to get a single character is done by

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Xcopy /W "%~f0" "%~f0" 2>Nul

The other stuff is to build a complete string and to handle things like !, & and backspace.

[OperatorGK]

How you can use XCOPY for keyboard input? Never known that.

dostips: how to display password in asterisk

The main part to get a single character is done by

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Xcopy /W "%~f0" "%~f0" 2>Nul

The other stuff is to build a complete string and to handle things like !, & and backspace.

Isn't this "pause >nul" trick? Or "xcopy" is a previous version?
Also, pause handles Ctrl+C properly. Dunno about why xcopy doesn't.

[Fossil Tech]

This question is extremely old now, however, someone resurrected it 2015.

No need to HEX edit CMD.EXE etc... Someone mentioned a restart too(?)

The solution that I found to block CTRL+C aka Terminate Batch Y/N COMPLETELY.

No Fuss, No kidding, No Breaking Out. XOUT but that too can be disabled.

Briefly:

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C:\PROFILES\ADMIN>REN "%COMSPEC:~0,-8%\CSRSS.EXE" !!!CSRSS.!!!

OOPS Windows File Protection. If WFP is enabled ask almighty Google about that.

Transpose the file names to undo. WARNING: This MAY also break your toaster.

PRO: Disallow all programs from injecting code via CSRSS hooking.

CON: PROPERTIES from the System Menu of CMD Windows are disabled as well.

CON: Enemy Territory will certainly whine until dialog box is dismissed once.

ELSE This is bulletproof. I'm being extremely terse!

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SideTip For KB Fans:

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COPY CON %SYSTEMROOT%\X.BAT

@EXIT

Hit ENTER after typing @EXIT then hit CTRL+Z then ENTER again.

Test drive it by typing the letter X at CMD Prompt & hit ENTER.

[OperatorGK]

This question is extremely old now, however, someone resurrected it 2015.

No need to HEX edit CMD.EXE etc... Someone mentioned a restart too(?)

The solution that I found to block CTRL+C aka Terminate Batch Y/N COMPLETELY.

No Fuss, No kidding, No Breaking Out. XOUT but that too can be disabled.

Briefly:

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C:\PROFILES\ADMIN>REN "%COMSPEC:~0,-8%\CSRSS.EXE" !!!CSRSS.!!!

OOPS Windows File Protection. If WFP is enabled ask almighty Google about that.

Transpose the file names to undo. WARNING: This MAY also break your toaster.

PRO: Disallow all programs from injecting code via CSRSS hooking.

CON: PROPERTIES from the System Menu of CMD Windows are disabled as well.

CON: Enemy Territory will certainly whine until dialog box is dismissed once.

ELSE This is bulletproof. I'm being extremely terse!

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SideTip For KB Fans:

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COPY CON %SYSTEMROOT%\X.BAT

@EXIT

Hit ENTER after typing @EXIT then hit CTRL+Z then ENTER again.

Test drive it by typing the letter X at CMD Prompt & hit ENTER.

Requires admin rights and we can't disable that. I don't think it's universal solution.

[MrJeeves]

The following code suppresses the text and the ^C:

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start "" /wait "program.bat">nul | echo n>nul