I have just started playing with batch files and have no experiance so be gentle with me. I have written the following batch file and my question is this can i force the batch file to take a default answer after a period of time (somewhat like the choice /t/d command availible in non NT based systems.) i have heard of people copying the choice command over from 98 machine but i dont want to do that. All help greatfully received. @echo off cls :begin rem *** this assumes that VNC is set to manual in services so rem *** therfore would not normally start rem *** gets inut from user set /p answer=Do you want the VNC server to run? (Y/N) rem *** decides on action to carry out if /i "%answer%"=="y" goto yes if /i "%answer%"=="n" goto no goto temp rem *** start VNC Server application :yes echo VNC will run rem start **** ultravnc.exe file location pause goto eof rem *** do nothing goto end of file VNC doesn't start :no echo VNC will NOT run pause goto eof rem *** wrong input catch all :temp echo Try again idiot only y or n are aloowed pause goto begin :eof

I use CHOICE from DOS 6.2 LOL. By the way, you don't need to write in :eof because it's built in. BUT, very oddly, you need the colon, like this goto :eof ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

use below stated command to manually start or stop vnc service to specified server or pc. sc \\servername start winvnc If you have saved a CONNECTION OF VNC and having its file .VNC than you can directly point it out like and after use of vnc you can close the vnc service sc \\servername start winvnc c:\myvncs\server1.vnc sc \\servername stop winvnc K2™ System/Network Engineer