Hello, Ive been having issues trying to replace single text, this question has been answerd before but it seems to remove all text before it deaming the code usless Im trying to get the users to input something %a% which before replaced is n1 :ADD1 cls Find /V n1 < Myfile.bat > %TEMP%.\Myfile.tmp Echo %a% >>%TEMP%.\Myfile.tmp Copy %TEMP%.\Myfile.tmp Myfile.bat Del %TEMP%.\Myfile.tmp cls section with n1 note: N1 and N2 are all I am wanting to replace with %a% and %b% but when a user inputs something it finds the N1 and replaces everything before it aswell ren n1 "control panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" attrib +h +s "Control panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" ren n2 "control panel1.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" attrib +h +s "Control panel1.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" thanks Duke

You got me mystified. Maybe post a before and after example. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

I'm getting the user to input something, that input replaces one word in a string which is in the same or batch file cls @echo off :NAME1 cls echo ________________________________________________________________________________ set /p a="First Folder's name that you want to hide: " echo ________________________________________________________________________________ echo so you want to be able to hide %a% yes or no? echo ________________________________________________________________________________ pause > nul set/p "input=>" if %input%==N goto NAME1 if %input%==n goto NAME1 if %input%==no goto NAME1 if %input%==Y goto ADD1 if %input%==y goto ADD1 if %input%==yes goto ADD1 :ADDAN1 echo ________________________________________________________________________________ echo Would you like to add another Hideable folder yes or no? echo ________________________________________________________________________________ pause > nul set/p "input=>" if %input%==N goto END if %input%==n goto END if %input%==no goto END if %input%==Y goto ADDAN1 if %input%==y goto ADDAN1 if %input%==yes goto ADDAN1 :ADD1 cls Find /V n1 < Myfile.bat > %TEMP%.\Myfile.tmp Echo %a% >>%TEMP%.\Myfile.tmp Copy %TEMP%.\Myfile.tmp Myfile.bat Del %TEMP%.\Myfile.tmp