If you’re a system administrator or someone who relies on batch files to automate tasks, you’ve probably encountered situations where things go wrong because a script gets changed while it’s running.

This tutorial is for Windows PC users who want to perform a series of file management operations without having to enter commands one at a time. Using a text editor such as Notepad, type each command ...

(1) For an overview of batch file commands, see batch file abc's. (2) A file containing data that is processed or transmitted from beginning to end. (3) A file of operating system commands that are ...

If you need a computer on your network to automatically perform a file copy as soon as Windows loads -- such as to back up a particular file to your company's server -- the simplest method is to ...

Say I had a script to take on-line backups of a database (in my case Citrix data store in Access format) and I wanted to script the renaming of the file to include the current date (and possibly ...