Hello, I want to create a menu with 4 choices. I found on previous post the way to do so, but I want to exit the batch file if 5seconds passed without pressing a key. Is it possible? thanks a lot

There is no way to have a menu and a timeout. You can however have a timeout using ping, but it will not work with a menu. The following code will add a menu to your script with 4 options. Be sure to add your code under each label. ::==menu.bat @echo off for %%i in (1 2 3 4) do echo Choice %%i echo Enter Choice: set /p choice= for %%a in (1 2 3 4) do ( if "%choice%"=="%%a" goto choice%%a ) :choice1 ::your code goes here :choice2 ::your code goes here :choice3 ::your code goes here :choice4 ::your code goes here "Computer security." — Oxymoron

@echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion echo choose a menu item : 1 2 3 4 choice /c12345 /t5,5 /n goto :%errorlevel% :1 echo choice 1 & goto :eof :2 echo choice 2 & goto :eof :3 echo choice 3 & goto :eof :4 echo choice 4 & goto :eof :5 ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2