Windows 10: Get startup batch file to work AGAIN in 64bit Win10 v1903

For some time, a batch file in StartUp folder would cause "This PC" explorer-window to open after the PC booted. That no longer happens. How can I get it to work again ? The batch file code said "explorer /e,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}".

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how to list windows temp folder in batch file at startup

Win 10 Pro

I have a batch file called by a shortcut in startup. It creates a few drives with subst and then lists contents of temporary folders.

There is no output from the command below unless the batch file runs as administrator

du -q "C:\windows\Temp"

My login has administrator rights but this only seems to let me change protections and privileges, not "run as administrator" by default.

At one time I changed the protections on the temp folder but then I reasoned that it would be nice if the procedure would handle the situation where an update reinstates SYSTEM ownership which has just happened - hence the lack of output from the DU command.

If a shortcut to the batch file is configured to run as administrator then the UAC gets in the way. So I tried the work-around to create a scheduled task to be run via a startup batch file. After a lot of fiddling about it will run and the subst commands
appear to work but the drives are not actually created.

So I am now trying to solve problems several generations of problem removed from the original.

Can anyone suggest a complete solution please without patching windows 10...?

 

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.