.Bat Files

[rustoni]

I am pulling my hair out as i have written some simple bat files to clean and defrag my desktop on a weekly basis which work fine but when i try to write something similar for the laptop they seem to run and delete themselves or just loop ?

for example if i run "defrag c: -f" from the command line all is well but if i put this in a text doc and save it as a .bat file then it just loops and doesn't do anything ?

Any idea's ?

Thanks
Ian

[NikB]

You probably need to add a command to open a windows cmd window first. Something like:

call cmd defrag c: -f

[mashie]

Tested defrag c: -f here.

In w2k it is an unrecognized program.

Works just fine in XP, both at cmd and batchfile.

[warmfuzzies]

Maybe I can help, I tried to do a services halt batch file, and the problem occured when I tried to rename a .txt to .bat the file then becam .txt.bat and it all went wobbly on me.

Make sure your file has the right extension on it, not the double like I ended up with.

Kevin.