(Very Basic) Vista Batch Files

[philby]

Hello there

Just tinkering with making .bat files and would be interested in knowing if I'm doing something wrong here -

This works:
echo off
start /d "C: \Program files\ccleaner (M)" ccleaner

But this doesn't work:

echo off
start /d "C: \Program files\opera 10 preview" opera

(makes no difference if I kill the spaces between opera-10-preview, or add .exe to opera)

Grateful for any help - thanks in advance.

philby

[pandlouk]

Originally Posted by philby

Hello there

Just tinkering with making .bat files and would be interested in knowing if I'm doing something wrong here -

This works:
echo off
start /d "C: \Program files\ccleaner (M)" ccleaner

But this doesn't work:

echo off
start /d "C: \Program files\opera 10 preview" opera

(makes no difference if I kill the spaces between opera-10-preview, or add .exe to opera)

Grateful for any help - thanks in advance.

philby

Why you don't use the following:
start /d "C: \Program files\opera 10 preview\opera.exe"

Panagiotis

[philby]

start /d "C: \Program files\opera 10 preview\opera.exe"

This doesn't work either - I just get a quick flash of the command window.

Plus, the ccleaner .bat works without the .exe extension...

Thanks for response.

philby

[Brian K]

philby,

Try these lines without start....

@echo off
"C:\Program files\opera 10 preview\opera.exe"

Did you mean to put a space after C:

[philby]

Yes, thank you, that was it - no space after C: and it works.

Now I don't understand why the ccleaner .bat works with the space after c:

What's that about? I would have imagined either there must be a space or there must not be.

Also, is there a way of preventing the command window from flashing up when the bat shortcut is hit (without TP s/w)?

Thanks again in advance

philby

[Brian K]

Try this...

@echo off
if not defined RunphilbyTask set RunphilbyTask=1 & start "philby" /min %SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe /c "%0" & goto :EOF
"C:\Program files\opera 10 preview\opera.exe"

The second line has wrapped. There are only 3 lines here. The second line starts with "if" and finishes with "EOF"



Try this for ccleaner

@echo off
"C:\Program Files\CCleaner\ccleaner.exe" /auto

You won't see anything lasting more than a second. It's finished.