How To Create BATCH file from an EXE file

duncanb7

Going to try your suggestion now....

Cheers

duncanb

I created the following bat file as you suggested but didn't work.

@echo off
:Start
"c:\program files (x86)\microsoft office\office12\excel.exe" C:\Users\Pattec01\Documents\theone.xls

When I run it I get the message:

'■@'

Not recognised..

just example, since you might not have excel.exe at that directory,

try your own  example such as notepad

@echo off
:Start
notepad.exe

this sounds like the file is saved "unicode", and should be saved "ascii" or vice-versa
when you do a save as, please check which encoding you put.

this said, I have already seen a couple of times that notepad may put a "strange" character in the beginning of the file, in which case you need to use another editor (ultraedit, notepad++, just to name the ones used here ...)

Hi Guy,

The options I have are:

ANSI
Unicode
Unicode big endian
UTF-8

I don't have the ascii format.

Regards

Chaps,

I managed to create a bat file with the following:

"C:\Program Files\VanDyke Software\SecureCRT\SecureCRT.exe" /Script C:\temp\Script.vbs

I saved the file with Unicode. However, it won't execute in the program from the link I showed you above.

Guy, are you suggesting this still needs to be save in ascii? Even though I can get it to work from cmd prompt?

Cheers

could you try this first without  vps file ?

"C:\Program Files\VanDyke Software\SecureCRT\SecureCRT.exe"

sorry, ANSI , not ASCII...
what I suggest alternatively is to use another text file editor

duncan,

Going to try now...

Guy, no worries mate.

I can get the batch file to work.

However, I can't get it to work with the program in Solarwinds.....

Thank you