Collection of Batch files for everyone to use!

CrucialHoax · Sep 17, 2009

Hello,

I've been reading a lot on the internet about vista problems, errors, etc. and one of the first checks someone tells the OP is run sfc. Well more than likely if they are posting in a forum asking for help, they don't know how to do it, or what it does. That's the main batch file I made, I also made one to show wireless signal strength, one to defrag the hard drive, and one to clear the dns cache.

I know its not much but I'm just trying to help some of the folks that dont know vista so well and are having a hard time...

I'm working on some finishing touches so they look nice then I'm zipping them up and posting them here

roy69 · Sep 17, 2009

It may be an idea to show the code.
You can get a usb memory stick to autorun with different options 1 run sfc 2 run chkdsk etc.
It would be handy for diag.

CrucialHoax · Sep 17, 2009

roy69 said:
It may be an idea to show the code.
You can get a usb memory stick to autorun with different options 1 run sfc 2 run chkdsk etc.
It would be handy for diag.

Yes, that would be. I'll have to work on that. Thanks for the tips.

CrucialHoax · Sep 17, 2009

I uploaded them with this post. In the zip folder is a readme. Please read it as it has some info on what's in the batch files, what they do, and how they are used.

Thanks guys.

CrucialHoax · Sep 17, 2009

Sorry for the 2nd post, but I attached another batch file with just about every included vista tool. It has menu's.

stoneys-nutz · Sep 17, 2009

Hello CrucialHoax,
What a good idea, cant believe nobody has done it before.

CrucialHoax · Sep 17, 2009

Thanks stoney. :D

CrucialHoax · Sep 17, 2009

In this post I'm including updates to my original defragger batch file, and the sfc batch file.

Included is: Defragger 1.1 and SFC Scanner 1.1
updates: Added menu's for ease of use, eveything works more streamline, everything is in a numerical selection and everything is labeled.

Let me know if there are any problems.

Thanks.

lemur · Sep 17, 2009

What about creating a batch file that runs a utility that you can pipe the results to a text file? Then the user can upload that text file back to this forum.

CrucialHoax · Sep 17, 2009

lemur said:
What about creating a batch file that runs a utility that you can pipe the results to a text file? Then the user can upload that text file back to this forum.

I'm sure I can do it, I believe the REM command will do that. Which utility would you like that option for?

lemur · Sep 17, 2009

Didn't have a specific one in mind. Generally, when you pipe, it's something like this...

program.exe > myfile.txt

CrucialHoax · Sep 17, 2009

lemur said:
Didn't have a specific one in mind. Generally, when you pipe, it's something like this...

program.exe > myfile.txt

I just tried notepad and I couldn't seem to get it to work. I'm still looking for some answers. But I will get back to you

H2SO4 · Sep 17, 2009

lemur said:
What about creating a batch file that runs a utility that you can pipe the results to a text file? Then the user can upload that text file back to this forum.

Why don't they just pipe the results of the utility to a file, instead of running a batch file to run a utility to pipe the results to a file?

CrucialHoax · Sep 17, 2009

I got cmd to post a log to a file, but I can't get notepad, which is no big deal.

lemur · Sep 17, 2009

:info
start systeminfo > sysinfo.txt
goto menu

(others? bootcfg, computerdefaults, ipconfig /all, and others from Windows Vista User Guide: Command, Command Prompt, CMD, DOS, MSDOS, MS-DOS, Screenshots, Preview, Help, Aero, Sidebar, Microsoft, XP, Server, Linux, Mac)

CrucialHoax · Sep 17, 2009

lemur said:
:info
start systeminfo > sysinfo.txt
goto menu

(others? bootcfg, computerdefaults, ipconfig /all, and others from Windows Vista User Guide: Command, Command Prompt, CMD, DOS, MSDOS, MS-DOS, Screenshots, Preview, Help, Aero, Sidebar, Microsoft, XP, Server, Linux, Mac)

Alright, I got it, I'm going to update my 'Vista diagnostic' pack to have some more options like system info and any others I can think of.

thanks for the tips.

roy69 · Sep 18, 2009

For redirection all you need to do is use >
If you want a batch file to display the contents of a text file I belive the command is type,
example c:\type test.txt
If you have any problems getting the memory stick to autorun let me know, I have managed to get an index web page to autorun, it is a bit harder than a batch file but doable. If this post gets alot of intrest I may ask admin to turn it into a sticky.

CrucialHoax · Sep 18, 2009

roy69 said:
For redirection all you need to do is use >
If you want a batch file to display the contents of a text file I belive the command is type,
example c:\type test.txt
If you have any problems getting the memory stick to autorun let me know, I have managed to get an index web page to autorun, it is a bit harder than a batch file but doable. If this post gets alot of intrest I may ask admin to turn it into a sticky.

I got cmd to redirect system information to a text file by using this syntax in the batch file: cmd /c systeminfo > %userprofile%\desktop\sysinfo.txt

That works like a charm. I'm going to use that for running task also, so instead of people needing to install HJT they can just run a few bath files that will give us all the info we should need to fix a problem.

Thanks a lot roy for your tips, and that would be awesome if this made sticky material, but if not, oh well. It's still useful. Also, roy, how do I make a usb autorun with a batch file in it, per say, Vista Diagnostics?

Thanks everyone

roy69 · Sep 18, 2009

To autorun a memory stick you need a file called autorun.inf
The contents of this file would be as such

[autorun]
label=roys experiment
shellexecute=test.bat

The label will name your memory stick
Then the name of the batch file that will run

If you set the batch file to run an html file then it would be like this.

Main.mht

this allows you to design a main page using word that will execute in you web page viewer.

In short you have an index page like a web page called main.mht that will autorun from the memory stick. The batch file called test.bat calls the file main.mht.

There are alot of things you can do with memory sticks these days.

roy69 · Sep 18, 2009

I have made this a sticky for now, see how it goes.

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