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

You should post this in the "Programming " section. See the entry on the left of this page. Once I thought I was wrong, now I'm not so sure!