Vista - Collection of Batch files for everyone to use!

Oh and I just remembered some other handy batch files I made.
When I used to use Hamachi (a VPN program), Vista sometimes would connect to my emulated Hamachi network card by default instead of my ethernet card and my internet wouldn't work until I went into devmgmt.msc and disabled Hamachi.

I solved this by making a batch file (hamachi.bat) to use devcon.exe to tell me of the status of my Hamachi network driver, and then give me the options to disable it, enable, start hamachi, or exit. Note: This script needs devcon.exe (from Microsoft) and grep.exe to run. grep is a very popular Unix command written to search for text in stdout and return any lines matching that text. Along that, you could specify flags, such as to invert the search, or be case insensitive. Since Windows doesn't have anything equivalent to it, I just download the Linux version compiled for Windows. It's commonly piped (|) from other commands and acts as a filter.

The second batch file gets rid of Windows' cache of all the updates you download (the installation files). I guess you should only use this if you want to free up some space. Note: it removes the history of the update being installed when you look at previously installed updates in Windows Update.

And here's a list I copied from some other website that I've found useful, basically it's variables that you can use in your batch files which can save you time and make your batch files more portable.
To try them out, you could open up cmd and type 'echo %date%' or 'echo %userprofile%'.

Oh and if you think you'll be writing more batch scripts in time, I highly recommend downloading Notepad++ (I've linked the latest version from their SourceForge page). It has syntax highlighting for lots of popular programming and scripting languages, like batch, and it makes working with them a lot easier. And it's not much of a RAM-hog; I pretty much use it as a Notepad replacement.

Thanks for the huge contribution

I almost stopped making them because there was nothing left to make. I had almost every program I could think of into one batch file with its own menus. But thanks for the ideas and help, greatly appreciated

I can't remember who posted in here how to make a auto-run flash drive with my batch files on it. But I can post those files here with a how to [ courtesy of original poster of the information ] so people can plug in a flash drive and run those tools. Kind of a neat troubleshooting gadget.

Now I'm going to do a small How-To on how to use the autorun feature of these batch files, or any batch file for that matter

- Plug in the flash drive you would like to use for autorun and tool use
-> Windows should find it and ask what you want to do...

- Select the Open Folder and View Files option
->If there are any files on the drive you are using, be sure to back them up

- Now go ahead after everything is backed up, delete everything from the flash drive.

- Place the batch file you want to use in the drive, not in a folder, just on the drive.
-> F:\Test.bat

- Now place the attached file to this post - autorun.inf - on the drive also
-> you will need to edit the autorun.inf to your information
-> the label is the name of the flash drive you plugged in - bobs drive
-> the shellexecute is the name of the batch file - make sure its correct

- Now safely remove the flash drive then plug it back in to the computer and it should run the batch file that you dropped on it.

- If it does not run, then safely remove it and plug it in again, you might need to set the auto-run option to run the disk contents. Not sure yet, maybe someone else can chime in on that...

check this

Can't run that, I'm using linux...

Is a pendrive installation of Win7?

Thats exactly what i've been trying to do with x64 Vista. But I dont have an actual install dvd,just the recovery sent with the machine. Just wanted another option to boot from to save a crach. I actually stumbled upon a flash drive that is already partitioned with..get this..built in boot files! Google Kaser Flash dvd

That is just too freaking cool Pacinitaly! You rock. Now...if I were to just drop that onto a flash, I could then boot my system from it,yes??

This was my previous post on the autorun subject

This has only been tested on Vista.

Cool Roy, thanks! Mind if I PM you. Have a quick question.