Me and a friend are making a little messenger batch. Code: @echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion cls title Dancing Tangerine (Beta 2.1.6) :login cls color 07 cls echo Welcome to Dancing Tangerine (2008, All Rights Reserved, Breakout House Inc.) echo Type your password or 'register' to get started (type 'exit' to exit)... set /p usrpassword= IF !usrpassword!==blah goto DrummerDude952 IF !usrpassword!==blah1 goto guest IF !usrpassword!==blah2 goto Administrator IF !usrpassword!==blah3 goto MisterCool IF !usrpassword!==register goto registration IF !usrpassword!==exit goto exit :wrongpass echo You entered an invalid password, try again... pause goto login :MisterCool cls set user=MisterCool echo Online > "L:\Dancing Tangerine\Status\!user!" goto colorcheck :DrummerDude952 cls set user=DrummerDude952 echo Online > "L:\Dancing Tangerine\Status\!user!" goto colorcheck :Administrator cls set user=Administrator echo Online > "L:\Dancing Tangerine\Status\!user!" goto colorcheck :Guest cls set user=Guest echo Online > "L:\Dancing Tangerine\Status\!user!" goto colorcheck :colorcheck cls :findtheme cls IF exist "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\theme_!user!" goto findtypetheme :findred Find "0c" "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\!user!" IF ErrorLevel 1 goto findyellow color 0c :findyellow Find "0e" "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\!user!" IF ErrorLevel 1 goto findgreen color 0e :findgreen Find "0a" "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\!user!" IF ErrorLevel 1 goto findblue color 0a :findblue Find "09" "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\!user!" IF ErrorLevel 1 goto findpurple color 09 :findpurple Find "05" "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\!user!" IF ErrorLevel 1 goto finddefault color 0d :finddefault Find "color" "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\!user!" IF ErrorLevel 1 goto main color 07 goto main :findtypetheme cls set /p theme=<"L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\theme_!user!" color !theme! :main cls echo Welcome, !user!... echo. echo Pick an option. echo 1. Messaging echo 2. Check Online Status echo 3. DT-Mail echo 4. Color echo 5. Sign Out echo 6. Check for Update set /p startoption= IF !startoption!==1 goto messaging IF !startoption!==2 goto onlinestatus IF !startoption!==3 goto dtmail IF !startoption!==4 goto color IF !startoption!==5 goto signout IF !startoption!==6 goto update echo Invaid entry, try again... pause goto main :messaging cls start iexplore.exe "file:\\\L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\DTChat.txt" :nobrowsermessaging cls echo Dancing Tangerine Chat echo. echo Type your message and press enter (type 'more' for more options)... echo. set /p message= IF !message!==more goto messagingmore IF !message!==cls goto clear echo !message! (!user!) >> "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\DTChat.txt" goto nobrowsermessaging :clear echo Press 'F5' to load new messages... > "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\DTChat.txt" echo. >> "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\DTChat.txt" goto nobrowsermessaging :messagingmore cls echo More. Type the option number to choose... echo. echo 1. Return to Messaging echo 2. Return to Main set /p messagingmore= IF !messagingmore!==1 goto nobrowsermessaging IF !messagingmore!==2 goto main echo Invalid entry, try again... goto messagingmore :color cls echo Type a color... (red, yellow, green, blue, purple, default, or themes) echo. set /p colorprefs= IF exist "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\regcolor\!colorprefs!" goto IFcolor cls echo Invalid color. Try again... pause goto color :IFcolor cls IF !colorprefs!==red goto red IF !colorprefs!==yellow goto yellow IF !colorprefs!==green goto green IF !colorprefs!==blue goto blue IF !colorprefs!==purple goto purple IF !colorprefs!==default goto default IF !colorprefs!==themes goto themes :red echo 0c > "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\!user!" del "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\theme_!user!" cls echo Color saved... pause goto colorcheck :yellow echo 0e > "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\!user!" del "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\theme_!user!" cls echo Color saved... pause goto colorcheck :green echo 0a > "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\!user!" del "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\theme_!user!" cls echo Color saved... pause goto colorcheck :blue echo 09 > "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\!user!" del "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\theme_!user!" cls echo Color saved... pause goto colorcheck :purple echo 05 > "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\!user!" del "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\theme_!user!" cls echo Color saved... pause goto colorcheck :default echo color > "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\!user!" del "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\theme_!user!" cls echo Color saved... pause goto colorcheck :themes cls echo Type in the two letters/numbers following the theme name... echo. type "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\regcolor\themes.txt" echo. set /p themechoice= echo !themechoice! > "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\theme_!user!" cls echo Theme choice saved... echo. pause goto colorcheck :onlinestatus cls IF exist "L:\Dancing Tangerine\Status\DrummerDude952" echo DrummerDude952 is online! IF exist "L:\Dancing Tangerine\Status\Administrator" echo The Administrator is online! IF exist "L:\Dancing Tangerine\Status\Guest" echo Guest is online! IF exist "L:\Dancing Tangerine\Status\MisterCool" echo MisterCool is online! echo. echo Press any key to return to the main menu... pause > nul goto main :dtmail cls echo Welcome, !user! to dtmail, type an option number... echo. echo 1. Send a Message. echo 2. Check Messages. echo 3. Go to Main Menu. set /p dtmail= IF !dtmail!==1 goto senddtmail IF !dtmail!==2 goto receivedtmail IF !dtmail!==3 goto main :senddtmail :to cls set /p to=To: IF exist=="L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\RegUsr\!to!" goto dtmailwrite goto toerror :dtmailwrite cls set /p subject=Subject: cls set /p dtmailmessage=Message: echo !dtmailmessage! > "L:\Dancing Tangerine\dtmail\!to!\!subject!_(!user!).txt" COPY "L:\Dancing Tangerine\dtmail\!to!\!subject!_(!user!).txt" "L:\Dancing Tangerine\dtmail\!user!\Sent\!subject!_(!to!).txt" cls echo Message Sent! pause cls goto dtmail :toerror cls echo The username you typed is invalid, try again... pause goto to :receivedtmail cls start iexplore.exe "file:\\\L:\Dancing Tangerine\dtmail\!user!\" echo Press any key to return to dtmail... pause > nul goto dtmail :registration cls echo Welcome to Dancing Tangerine. Type your name. set /p name= echo. echo Type your desired username (numbers and letters only, no spaces or symbols)... set /p desuser= echo. echo Type your desired password... set /p despass= echo Name:!name! >> "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\Administration\Registration\Pending" echo Desired Username:!desuser! Desired Password:!despass! >> "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\Administration\Registration\Pending" echo. >> "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\Administration\Registration\Pending" cls echo Your registration request has been sent. Try back with the password you entered to see if you've been accepted. echo Press any key to exit... pause > nul exit :signout cls del "L:\Dancing Tangerine\Status\!user!" goto login :update cls IF exist "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\Update\Update 1" goto yes :no echo There is no update needed. pause goto main :yes echo Update available! set /p update=Would you like to update? (y/n) IF !update!==y goto yesupdate IF !update!==n goto noupdate :noupdate cls echo It is strongly recomended for you to update, are you sure? (y/n) set /p updatesure= IF !updatesure!==y goto yesupdate IF !updatesure!==n goto main echo Invalid choice, try again... pause goto noupdate pause cls goto main :yesupdate cls echo Please replace "Dancing Tangerine" on your Flash Drive, with this update. echo. echo Dancing Tangerine will now exit. pause start iexplore.exe "file:\\\G:\Dancing Tangerine\Update" :exit exit END OF CODE We are trying to implement a registration feature into it so that we don't have to add code for every user who wants to join. Long story short, we need make a batch file to add text to the above batch file in the section with the user info, after "goto login" in ":wrongpass" and before ":colorcheck"... And the section with the passwords between "set /p usrpassword=" and ":wrongpass". The text needed would be in a txt file. There would be five lines that would need to be added to the user info section, and one line needed to be added to the password section. If you need any more info, just tell me. P.S. I know the code for the registration is a little off. It's not finished. Babaloomba

My suggestion is to make another batch file that contains the usernames(registered.bat below). This file should contain the line below for each user: if %usrpassword%==whatever set user=someguy This way when you regrister a new user you can use this command to enter them to the password check: set userpassword= echo if %%userpassword%%==%enteredpass% set user=%enteredusr%>>registered.bat Also having a label for each user is unnecessary as they contain the same thing, so using: if defined user goto existuser checks if the user exists (because it would have been set by calling registered.bat) then goes to existuser. The label :existuser replaces the label for each user, meaning the code is shorter and every user, new or existing, uses the same label. Below shows some of the changes I suggest. set /p usrpassword= IF %usrpassword%==exit goto exit call registered.bat if %user% == register goto registration if defined user goto existuser :wrongpass echo You entered an invalid password, try again... pause goto login :existusr cls echo Online > "L:\Dancing Tangerine\Status\%user%" cls :findtheme cls IF exist "L:\Dancing Tangerine\SystemFiles\ColorPrefs\theme_%user%" goto findtypetheme

Thank you for your reply and advice. I greatly appreciate it. I'm putting in the things you suggested, but unless I missed something, I don't think you answered my main question. I need to know how to enter the user info in the selected parts, so it doesn't insert it at the end. I know the: 'echo blah >> DancingTangerine.bat' , but that puts the text at the end. I need it to go in the password check section. Babaloomba

see below, I screwed this post up but can't get rid of it.....

I'm not sure how clear my last post was, so I'm going to start again and hopefully make it clearer.... These are just my suggestions you DON'T have to folow them if you don't want. Firstly I suggest your remove the line "setlocal enabledelayedexpansion" you won't need it for this batch job. Secondly change all occurrences "!" with "%" (removing quotes). Your text editor may have find and replace, this should make this easy. Thirdly change the below in orange with the below in blue This... :MisterCool cls set user=MisterCool echo Online > "L:\Dancing Tangerine\Status\%user%" goto colorcheck :DrummerDude952 cls set user=DrummerDude952 echo Online > "L:\Dancing Tangerine\Status\%user%" goto colorcheck :Administrator cls set user=Administrator echo Online > "L:\Dancing Tangerine\Status\%user%" goto colorcheck :Guest cls set user=Guest echo Online > "L:\Dancing Tangerine\Status\%user%" goto colorcheck Becomes this... :existuser cls echo Online > "L:\Dancing Tangerine\Status\%user%" goto colorcheck Thirdly make a new batch file called "registered.bat" (without quotes) and put in it the same directory as your batch and enter the below in blue into it.... IF %usrpassword%==blah set user=DrummerDude952 IF %usrpassword%==blah1 set user=guest IF %usrpassword%==blah2 set user=Administrator IF %usrpassword%==blah3 set user=MisterCool IF %usrpassword%==register set user=registration Fourthly change the below in orange in your main batchfile to the below in blue This.... set /p usrpassword= IF %usrpassword%==blah goto DrummerDude952 IF %usrpassword%==blah1 goto guest IF %usrpassword%==blah2 goto Administrator IF %usrpassword%==blah3 goto MisterCool IF %usrpassword%==register goto registration IF %usrpassword%==exit goto exit :wrongpass Becomes this... set user= set /p usrpassword= IF %usrpassword%==exit goto exit if %user%==register goto registration call registered.bat if defined user goto existuser :wrongpass Now you should be able to append users to your password check using... set userpassword= echo if %%userpassword%%==%enteredpass% set user=%enteredusr%>>registered.bat

Hey. Thanks. I need to sleep, so I'll try it tomorrow. Babaloomba

I'm still not sure if I made it very clear, so here's an explanation. The above is about removing the need to edit your batchfile. That's why all of the user's labels were combined into :existuser, this make's it work with many combinations without change. Setting the user variable is relegated to a second batch file that contains all of your if statements, calling it will set the user variable. The second batchfile makes it possible to >> append an extra if statement for every new user. Removing setlocal enabledelayedexpansion and changing !'s to %'s simplifies the whole environment and may even give a speed increase. The rule I try to follow with delayed expansion is use it if I need to....... Ofcourse I have left the other chores like checking if a username or password is already taken to you..... [edit] It has just occured to me that you may be able to put a label, say :userset, after your exit label(at the very end of the file) with all of the if statements after it instead of in a second batch. This way you could >> append any extra if statements to the end of the file. Instead of calling registered.bat you would: call :userset You would still need to make most of the changes above, but it would still all be in one file. I'm not entirely sure if this will work or not but you could try if you like.