Windows 10: broken batch files

ok, so for a while I have been using a simple script:


:top

shutdown -a

shutdown -s -t 3600

timeout /T 3600

goto top

to set a 1 hour shutdown timer, and make it restart if needed with a single click. But after updating to OS build 18956.1000 the file has completely broken! With it simply spamming the second line "shutdown -a" over and over again, then when this is ran:


:top

shutdown -s -t 2393

echo 1

pause

goto top


it does the same thing, whilst this:


:top

echo 1

echo 2

pause

goto top



works perfectly fine, also, the shutdown command doesn't actually go through, so not even the command works! This problem appears in both .bat and .cmd files. And one more thing, just:


shutdown -s -t 304


just spams the shutdown command without ever running it. I really can't for the life of me figure out why this is happening or how to fix it...

:)

 

Batch Files Knowledge Base

Don't use batch files very much but one I find useful is for creating a list of files in a directory.
Just copy the text below into Notepad and save as Filelist.bat

dir /a /-p /o:gen >filelist.txt

When you run it from a folder it will create a Filelist.txt file,in the same folder, that lists all the files in that folder.Useful when you are too lazy to type all the files out yourself.

 

Batch Files Knowledge Base

Very nice and usefull thanks for contributing.

 

Batch file to ping network

No, batch files are extremely easy.

A "If" requires three extra steps.

Code is not how much you can put in, but how lite can you make it and still perform the functions.

So

@ echo off


ping 1.4.1.4 >a.txt

findstr /m "Request timed out" a.txt
if %errorlevel%%==0 (
echo Save our nets!!!
)

pause