Sorry, index.dat again

OK by me if you want to keep the thread open

Seriously,

I couldn't find a thing about running a batch file in windows after ending task on Explorer in order to delete files "in use" by windows. How did you dream that up?

Being conservative by nature I figured I'd let someone else test it out.

By the way, does it make any difference using a semicolon instead of REM to have a line ignored?

 

Didn't dream it up, knew it, but sometimes I forget what I know about these things!

The simi colon works in config.sys but not in all vers of OS bat files.

But the rem is read by the command processor as it walks thru the bat. The most effecient way to do a rem in a bat is double colons :: at the begining of a rem/comment.

The command processor interpets this as a jump statement as in

goto exit
:exit

and only processes these if sent there by a goto statement so it just passes it unless it was sent there by a jump.

Small speed increase these days but back in DOS win31 etc in large complex bats with a lot of comments and help statements it was noticeable.

Mike