Congrat's on your upgrade - I would definitely invest in a
W2k manual and check out sites that concentrate on BATCH
files- you can do everything you want but if you are not
familiar with scripts and writing batch files, then the
internet is your best bet for examples - these are small
and simple - yet powerful tools to automate everything you
want to do - good luck

Batch files are way too simplistic - you can NOT do everything you want.
Download and use a real Win32 Interpreter such as KixTart (http://kixtart.org) and it is
CareWare.

Dave

"Jeff" <jmartin@lhps.org> wrote in message news:086301c366bf$40b58350$a301280a@phx.gbl...
| Congrat's on your upgrade - I would definitely invest in a
| W2k manual and check out sites that concentrate on BATCH
| files- you can do everything you want but if you are not
| familiar with scripts and writing batch files, then the
| internet is your best bet for examples - these are small
| and simple - yet powerful tools to automate everything you
| want to do - good luck