Vista - Collection of Batch files for everyone to use!

How do I create the 'Autorun.inf' file? Or is it just a notepad format then save the text doc with the .inf format?

Right now I'm making a batch file with Vista tools, Network tools, and a Information logger. I will also seperate them if only one is needed in the zip. I'll have it posted before tonight for sure. The logger I made works perfect. I also added an option to move all the .txt docs from the desktop into a folder so the user can zip it and upload it, or move the folder where ever for late reference...

You can do it in notepad. Just ensure you have the tools section of windows explorer set to show extensions so you can change the extension as you want.

Just an idea, you may want the last option of your bat file to run all test. I have not looked at your zip, I will do it now.

Alright, sounds easy enough.

So in notepad I would name the file autorun.inf, the contents would be:
[autorun]
label=x
shellexecute=anything.bat?

Included in this post are my newest batch files. Please take a look guys

Also let me know if there are any bugs or problems with them, I tested each option, but I'm not sure if it won't error on another machine. Thanks for the assistance everyone

In the above file attachment I forgot to sort between new and old batch files. The following attachment will have a 'New' folder with my new creations, and an 'Old' folder with 2 other previous attachments...

Sorry for the mistake.

There is a way of getting a batch file to run as administrator when called from a batch file. This may allow you to get everything to run from a menu and not have much needed from the user in way of using the CMD. Runas is the command I have found.

I have not written batch files for over 10 years so looking into this is getting the brain cells warming up and at my age this takes a while.

On wireless Utility pack you have no error control. If someone enters a wrong choice, a letter for example then the batch file will go for the first option.

After the IF options include a goto statement to go back to the beggining. This will ensure that only the options listed will be used. You can add an extra line after the if statments.

echo please only choose and option from the menu 1 - 11

to make it a bit more user friendly.

@echo off
Title Windows Network Utilities
goto menu
:menu
echo ***Some of the present utilities may require 'Admin' Privileges***
echo ***If so please exit, the right click the file and select: 'Run as Administrator'***
echo ***Thank you ***
echo What Would You Like To Do?
echo 1 Display DNS
echo 2 Flush DNS
echo 3 Wireless Signal
echo 4 Ping Your Current Connection
echo 5 Run the 'Ipconfig' utility
echo 6 Show The Driver's of Your Current Connection's Card
echo 7 Show Wired (Lan) Settings
echo 8 Release IPv4 Address (If You Run This You MUST Run 'Renew IPv4 Address')
echo 9 Renew IPv4 Address
echo 10 Release / Renew Automated
echo 11 Quit
:choice
set /P C=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7]?
if '%C%' == '1' goto disdns
if '%C%' == '2' goto clrdns
if '%C%' == '3' goto sig
if '%C%' == '4' goto ping
if '%C%' == '5' goto ip
if '%C%' == '6' goto drv
if '%C%' == '7' goto lan
if '%C%' == '8' goto rel
if '%C%' == '9' goto ren
if '%C%' == '10' goto aut
if '%C%' == '11' goto end
echo please only choose and option from the menu
goto choice
:disdns
ipconfig /displaydns
goto menu
:clrdns
ipconfig /cleardns
goto menu
:sig
netsh wlan show interface
goto menu
ing
ping localhost
goto menu
:ip
ipconfig /allcompartments /all
goto menu
:drv
netsh wlan show drivers
goto menu
:lan
netsh lan dump
goto menu
:rel
ipconfig /release
goto menu
:ren
ipconfig /renew
goto menu
:aut
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
goto menu

:end
exit

Ignore the smiley on ping

Roy,

Should I add that error statement in every batch file? I didn't even think of that...

Also, I created the autoruns.inf and added it to a flash drive and it's not autorunning my batch file. The batch file is also on the drive..

I fixed the Wireless utility pack. I seen that I didn't even add the corresponding options with what was listed. eg. I had options 1-11 with only 1-7 choices...

Anyways that's fixed and I also added the "Please Choose an Option From The Above Menu Only" so there isn't any confusion.

Next I'm going to see if I can successfully make these files run as Admin on different machines.

Thanks again for the support.

Just thought of this. The command "tree" will show us their directory structure, plus could pipe it to tree.txt. An oldie but a goodie.

I was thinking about that yes. This would also show us installed programs I believe, so we could look for unknown extensions or malicious material. I might use the DIR command, it's harder on the eyes, but it lists everything.

Good thinking

I'm updating a few batch files now. I'm adding in a message that shows only if the user types something other than the supplied options. I can also add in to my logging.bat file the tree option. In fact, I will lol.


Updates soon

If it ever gets too unwieldy, you could always break out submenus. Not now, but always an option.