Recent content by Glip

Another variant of the problem - please MS, re-model the Windows networking category architecture! I have had this problem as well, again a little bit different from everyone else. I have a standard home network with a router/gateway with DHCP server. When I connected using DHCP IP assignment...

Thanks for the suggestion; I'll try it. I'm still curious as to why this problem exists only when executing batch files direclty. If somebody can explain this, even if it's years from now, please do!

A new quirky find has come up for the good part. I 've got it working, in a sense. I didn't tell you how I ran the batch file. Well I just right clicked on it and select 'run as administrator', which gives the file not found error. Now, when I go into an elevated command prompt first, navigate...

No unfortunately it doesn't. :-) Note that you had the slash wrong (should be a back slash: xcopy .\txt.txt C:\) so that it works in non protected locations (not C:\). But copying to C:\ still doesn't work. Do you have some other way to point to a file in a non direct way (but relative to the...

Thanks, at least that works i.e. copy d:\txt.txt c:\ pauseBut the following does not (it gives the file not found error): copy txt.txt c:\ pausewhere the file txt.txt is in the same folder as the batch file (on C: or D: - doesn't matter). Apparently it is not possible to apply 'relative'...

I have a little strange problem under Windows 7 x64 using the copy command at the command prompt. If I enter the following command at an elevated command prompt: copy somefile c:\ it copies the file somefile to c:\. Now when I create a batch file from this command and run it with admin...