[windows2000] Re: Pause timer for batch files?

  • From: "Andrew Shriner" <aShriner@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 08:43:04 -0400

Hrmmm.... I know that I found it on a couple of my Windows XP boxes...
but it could be that someone else placed them there.

I definitely know it works under XP and 2003 if you can locate it.

Drew

>>> Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 05/24/04 08:40AM >>>
On Mon, 24 May 2004 08:31:31 -0400, Andrew Shriner wrote:

>Keep in mind I am known for making things work, not necessarily doing
it
>the best way there is... but in this case, I don't know of any way to
do
>it besides this.
>
>I've not done it in a logon script, but investigate the choice
>utility.
>
>If you go to the command interpreter (<start><run><cmd><enter>) and
>type in choice /?, you'll get the help screen for that program.
>
>I've used the following in other batch scripts to pause 10 seconds
(and
>all they see is the "Pausing 10 Seconds..." bit:
>
>choice /C Y /N /M "Pausing 10 Seconds..." /T 10 /D Y

Is choice still available in 2k/xp? Couldn't find it...

>>>> Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 05/24/04 08:20AM >>>
>Hi all,
>
>I'm trying to make a hard- and software audit on our domain
>computers with free software. Aida32 if somebody is interested...
>
>Anyway, I'm trying to tell the clients to make an audit when the
>computer starts up (using a stratup script), but this failed for
>whatever reason, so I resorted to adding the script to the login
>scripts-feature in a GPO.
>
>Now, it works, but seem to have some problems with the command
>window closing to fast, as it works if I put a pause statement in
>the end of the script. To minimise user input, ie pressing a key to
>unpause the script which some users find difficult and dangerous,
>I'm speculating whether there is a "pause timer" of some sort, that
>I can tell to pause for some 30 seconds and then continue w/o the
>user input.
>
>The script I'm running is a simple batch script, no vbs or similar
>at all.
>
>Does anybody know of a simple timer that would do what I want?


BW,

Sorin

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