I need a wait ability in a Batch file to wait for a service to stop before it continues to the next command. Here is my code... sc stop "Backup Exec System Recovery" del "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Symantec\FileBackup\catalog.dat" sc start "Backup Exec System Recovery" I need a wait after the SC because it will not delete the file while the service is still running.

If SC is a exe: sc stop "Backup Exec System Recovery" :pause tasklist | find /i "sc.exe" >nul if not %errorlevel%==1 goto :pause del c:\.....

ricardo647's solution should work. But if you want to wait a certain amount of time, you can do this: PING -n 11 127.0.0.1 >NUL That will simply ping your computer 11 times (starting now.) It will cause the batch file to pause for 10 seconds.