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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

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?

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

: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.

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

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.

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