Batch files - Examples (U*)

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Name

Description

OS ⁽¹⁾

Last modified
(DD/MM/YYYY)

Remarks

UnBlock.bat

Modify downloaded files' Zone Identifier to mark them as safe

17/06/2007

Based on an article in Windows Scripting Solutions by Bill Stewart.
More info on Zone Identifiers in MS Knowledge Base articles 883260, 889815 and 105763.

Disclaimer:

By manually marking a file safe you effectively disable the zone checking security mechanism for that file.
This is absolutely NOT recommended!!!
Use this batch file entirely at your own risk.

More detailed information can be found on my Alternate File Streams page.

UniqueID.bat

Remove Intel LANDesk agent's ID and force creation of a new unique ID

95 NT

13/07/2001

UpTime.bat

Display the amount of time a system has been up and running.

NT+RK/WMI

22/04/2006

Also available in VBScript.
More or less equivalent to my OS/2 Rexx script LastBoot.cmd which is available in VBScript too.

UsrInput

Ask for user input and store it in an environment variable

All

25/04/2001

Notes:	(1)	Operating System version these batch files were meant for
		All	No version specific commands are used, though it is (obviously) not tested with every DOS version available
		95	Windows 95 (and probably Windows 98 as well)
		98	Windows 98
		DOS3	MS-DOS 3 and 4
		DOS6+	MS-DOS 6 and later
		Kix	Windows (most functions also in plain DOS) with KiXtart
		NT4	Windows NT 4 (Windows NT 4 Terminal Server Edition too)
		NT	Windows NT (Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4 Terminal Server Edition too)
		NT+RK	Windows NT with Resource Kit (Windows NT 4 Terminal Server Edition with Resource Kit too)
		W2K	Windows 2000, and probably XP and Server 2003 as well
		W2K+RK	Windows 2000 with (Server) Resource Kit, and (probably) XP and Server 2003 as well
		W2K3	Windows Server 2003
		XP	Windows XP
		OS2	OS/2 Warp
		TS	Windows NT 4 Terminal Server Edition, or Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003 with Terminal Services