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February 13, 2007 at 05:14 AM
3timestrouble

Self Deleting Batch File

by 3timestrouble . Updated 17 years ago

I am trying to create a self deleting batch file to insert some registry keys at startup and reboot the machine. The batch has some admin info in it but I need the batch file to delete itself afterwords so that:

1. The admin info is deleted.

2. The computer does not continue running the batch after every start-up.

I have already tried using the del %0.bat method and it does not seem to work(maybe my syntax is wrong, so if someone has used this please let me know).

Also if anyone knows how to make a batch file wait before it performs the next command(with a time period, not a press any key function) that would also be greatly appreciated. I cannot get the TIMEOUT function to work.

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