Vista - Collection of Batch files for everyone to use!

I use this .bat file as soon as my desktop becomes available.
It has a bunch of websites. You can change the .url to whatever you want.
I have 14 sites I start out with, I wonder how many I can add until it crashes.
( keep in mind, 14 instances of IE open ) I wish I knew how to make them all open on 1page and 14tabs.


~Carmine

I believe you separate with windows and tabs with an 'enter' key to move everything down one. So it would like this:

start ie explorer avg.com
napster.com
vistax64.com
sevenforums.com
google.com

But I'm not exactly sure.


***EDIT*** Just tried it and it doesn't work. If those are your most visited sites, wouldn't it much easier just to set them as your home page with tabs instead of a batch file separate from IE? I know I'm making batch files that make things easier, but that can be done without a batch

Nothing will 'go wrong' by using the beta 1.7 batch file, all the batch files I have made are basically a collection of most, if not all, of Vista basic tools. So really, I just made a file that you can access every tool with a number, nothing more. Beta 1.7 fixes a menu issue from the previous post of beta_x86_x64... So please if you will use the 1.7 file.

These batch files just simplify how you get to the tools, they log information so if you do have a problem down the road you can use that to post your system information. Also, it has some networking utilities, clean up tools, and like I said, basic Vista programs. Nothing to worry about here

tried that, only 8sites open.
I do use this option when I use IE

Yeah, its a nice option when you regularly use that many sites

UPDATE: IF YOU USE THE DEFRAG BOOT FILES OPTION, PLEASE STOP. I JUST EXPERIENCED AN ISSUE WHILE DOING SO AND DO NOT WANT TO HARM ANYONE ELSES MACHINE. MAYBE IT WAS JUST MY MACHINE, BUT I'M BEING CAUTIOUS.

WORKING ON A NEW FILE NOW.

here it is, sorry to anyone that has experienced any issues with my files. I too, use that option and never had any problems up until yesterday

You probably should issue a caveat with these commands, that you, and vistax64.com bears no responsibility for the use of this... blah blah. The usual disclaimer.

If your hard drive is active for more than four hours, call a physician.

But seriously, the disclaimer is probably a good thing.

Yeah, I was thinking about that earlier. Use at own discretion.

Nice I downloaded and will check them out thanks

Hopefully you like them

Hey crucial, here's a batch file I use at school - I learned all of this stuff as I made it, so maybe you can learn some useful things from it too.

If you look at the code, I've uncommented the commands that modify the registry (so it's safe for you to run and test out). I can use this at school because they use DeepFreeze on their computers, so no matter what changes you make to the hard drive, upon restart they'll be restored.

What I usually do is compile the .bat file into an .exe using Bat to Exe, I'm pretty sure someone mentioned it a few pages back. Not only does it speed up certain commands, you can give your files a cool icon, lol.

Oh and just incase you don't know this already, when I first started out, I would open the Command Prompt and type 'help' to get a list of common commands. And then to learn the different flags, you can type the command name followed by '/?'. (it's kind of like the 'man' command in linux).

For example, if I wanted to learn more about how to use 'if' statements in my batch files, I would type 'if /?'.

There are some very useful commands that can save you a lot of time. Let's say you wanted a list of every process that's listed in Task Manager, you could open up cmd, cd to the directory you want to work in, type in 'tasklist > tasks.txt' and have the output redirected to a text file with everything formatted neatly.

Sometimes when I'm very bored, I'll do a 'tree /f /a C:\', lol.