Poser

Recently, I have begun learning about writing simple scripts for common tasks and saving them as batch files. I have very limited experience and have encountered several issues.

1. The script "shutdown .bat" is simple enough, a timed shutdown. " shutdown /s /t 60". I have UAC disabled, so all cmd prompts are elevated. When I manually enter it @ the prompt it works flawlessly. However when I save it as .bat , create a shortcut pointing to is on the desktop and run it from there it goes bonkers:

it opens the command prompt at the desktop user level, and endlessly prints the script at C: i.e.

c:\"compname"\"user": shutdown \s \t 60

c:\"compname"\"user": shutdown \s \t 60
c:\"compname"\"user": shutdown \s \t 60
c:\"compname"\"user": shutdown \s \t 60
c:\"compname"\"user": shutdown \s \t 60

I have to break the operation to get it stop

2. As a result, I am pretty sure I have this running constantly in the background as if I run a different test script using the same technique... it still repeats the previous script over and over and over


So after reading a bunch on the net that hasnt worked at all... I was hoping for some guidance here.

Goals: execute the three following bat from desktop shortcut

"restart.bat" - shutdown /r
"shutdown.bat" - shutdown /s /t 60
"shutdowncancel.bat" - shutdown /a

Also I would like to know how to break the failed script


- much thanks from a newb

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Havegooda

Don't you have to add some type of stop command a line below the shutdown request?

~Gooda~

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Microx256

ctrl + C and then usually you need to press 'y' as 'yes' to break a script

and what does the *.bat script look like? is there only this exactly as it is in it?
because i just tried it, and it worked fine for me
and when playing with shutdown scripts, always remeber
shutdown /a
cancels the scheduled shutdown

and little tips for making scripts;
adding a @ at the beginning of a line hides the path and command in the CMD, but thows the message of the command, and with & you can make multiple commands on one line, for example you can make
as

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Poser

@microX...

still a no go... and the script is exactly as you have reproduced it above.

perhaps it is an issue exclusive the 64bit flavor... where security is tighter???

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Microx256

wait a sec.. is a bat file opening a bat file? because that usually causes trouble

you can always replace the command that opens the script with the commands from the script.. eg:

a.bat:

b.bat:

so you can change that to
and still the effect is the same, except theres usually less errors then

oh.. and i noticed theres a $ in the path.. special marks like that are known to cause troubles sometimes, sp you can try to run it from a different folder also

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Poser

the window behinds it is simply a cmd prompt I opened to demonstrate that the "cmd" command defaults to adminstrator priv.

the dollar sign is simply the user folder name... but I try running it from the base directory

edit: unfortunately changing the origin directory (folder) does not solve the problem. It simply enters the non-terminating loop. Yet it runs perfectly if I open a command prompt and manually enter the script ???

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Poser

shamless bump...

should a mod move this to coding (though it is simple scripting... so probably not)

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