Windows 10: Windows 10 Batch files not opening without admin privileges

Since the past few weeks my PC has been having this issue that whenever I open any batch file (*.bat) it gives me an error message saying "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item." I am signed into an administrator account. The batch file will run if I right click the file and run it as admin. However, i want to access the bat file without doing this, since I have installed an application that needs to run batch files in the background, which used to work correctly, until now. Please Note: I have added the batch file's location to exclusions in Kaspersky antivirus 2019, so that's not the problem. I also have only one primary partition. I have been looking for a solution but nothing seems to work. Please help.


Here is a screenshot of the error message:



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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Batch file

hello,

i am not so good in creating batch files i need some help in creating one.

in the following path

C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS

there is a .SHD and .SPL file created when prints launched

i need a batch file to open the .SPL in notepad first then on closing the notepad opened, all the files .SHD and .SPL are permanently deleted

any help please

code to open the notepad is as below

start notepad "C:\windows\system32\spool\printers\FP00002.SPL"

the file is opened but there are unwanted characters that appear as well as below

 

Batch File to list files from two seperat networks

Hello,

I work in a factory where multiple PCs are on seperate VLANs. I need to view contents of a directory from one VLAN called "Admin" and compare it with individual directories from multiple PCs on another VLAN called "Shop" ("Shop" is not part of the Domain)

I have created a VB script that will compare two txt files and report the diffences. So I am trying to create two text files from each VLAN using a batch file. The batch file will be ran from a PC with two network cards so it can see both VLANs.

I can easily create the list from the "Admin" network using:
dir /b \\Server\Share\ > Active.txt

The "Shop" list is different. It needs a username and password. All Shop PCs have the same user name and password but I'm not sure how to structure the script to create a list from multiple PCs using a user name and password.
If I open the folders from Windows and enter the credentials then a script like this will work:
dir /b \\PC_Name1\Share > Programs.txt
dir /b \\PC_Name2\Share >> Programs.txt

Using the command above without first opening the folder and entering the credentials gives this error: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password

Thanks in advance for any help.