Howdy all. I'm looking for some ideas on what everyone uses .bat files for. I like using them, but I can't think of any other ways to use them. Can anyone help brainstorm to come up with some inventive ideas? I'm sure many people would also benifit. Thanks much, Dan

Make a program which is like a toolbox having to open scandisk, defrag, etc...

I use one I called sdisk.bat which is simply the following: scandisk c: /autofix /nosummary scandisk d: /autofix /nosummary scandisk e: /autofix /nosummary scandisk f: /autofix /nosummary which enables to me to scandisk all 4 drives from a dos prompt at once instead of having to type it out for each drive and as my pc is not the most stable in the world its a great help. Woof

How about to copy files from the network with a few prompts and grep data from either a .txt or .log file. I cannot put any of the code here because it is a registered batch file. Possibilities are great. I love batch files myself.

Omg, I have 400 batch files, where do I start? I have batch files to make batch files. - changing to directories - editing files I edit a lot (autoexec's, host files, etc) - clearing and setting file attributes - zipping files - backing up my doc's with ms scheduler to zip disk - Making all my 'emergency' diskettes (scandisk, etc) - making batch files (I really don't want to explain this, you all will think I'm whacked) - printing docs to specific print queues - move files anything to save typing a character or two! My boss makes me email my batch files to him every couple of months because it gives him ideas.

Batch files are awesome for any Microsoft Operating System. NT/2000 admins can make great uses of them for login/logout scripts as well as other uses.