I am trying to create a batch file that allows me to use a menu, so I can choose what task I would like to run. I have looked on the net, but there is nothing that I have found that work in XP. Is there anyone out there that can help me. Thanks.

BatchRun , batchfile maker . http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_charisma_page=downloads&PHPSESSID=0007473406038b22ae9ba7767d46cc7a http://www.outertech.com/ ============================= BatchMaker http://freebask.homestead.com/batchmaker.html BatchMaker is an application that allows you to build lists of filenames, format them, and then copy them to the clipboard or save them to a text file. Lists can be compiled via the common file dialog, the common select folder dialog, drag and drop, the Add Disks dialog, or the command-line. They can also be opened from ASCII text files. ============================= The Wizard's Apprentice http://wizapp.sourceforge.net/ Batch files still are a good way to get things done. As long as the things are simple, a batch file can be exactly the right way to do it: easily written, portable, and no need to install anything to get it to work. There is one big shortcoming of batchfiles though: interactivety. There is hardly a nice way to ask the user questions. In the old days, in MSDOS, there was no way at all to ask questions; then came CHOICE, a very primitive utility to ask Yes/No kind of questions and get an error level back. And that was it. Now there is the Wizard's Apprentice. It will allow you to ask questions from a batch file, using Windows dialog boxes in the so-called Wizard style: large dialogs asking one question at a time, with a Back button, a Next button and a Cancel button. With a few common batch techniques, the Wizard's Apprentice will allow you to create wizards with style!

Instead of building the menu in DOS, why not use the structure of Windows to build it? Ie: A folder that contains all your potential DOS apps. And shortcuts, suitably named, that will initiate them.

The reason I would like a menu in a batch file is so I can put it onto disk or CD, and make it as easy as possible. This way others that come in when I am away can use it with ease.