I have been actively using computers since 1979 so I am quite familiar with batch files in a DOS environment. I find the are certain tasks that I do over and over in Windows XP and I would like to write a batch file to bring this repetition down to just one click.
The following are tasks that I would like to have batch files for:
1. Click an icon to open the same group of 4 windows and if possible sized so they are all visible (like my screen had been quartered).
2. Click an icon to search for a file in a specific directory along with its subdirectories no matter what my current window/directory is and show the results in a window and not a dos shell environment so that I can just click on the file to open it. I know that I can search the whole computer but I have over 1 TB of files so a general search takes some time. Usually I have to navigate to the window I want, click "Search" from the toolbar, pick "all files and folders" from the side bar and the type in the file name I am looking for. I want to click once and then type in the file name.
3. Format/erase everything on a SD card or thumb drive and except for one file (always the same exact file).
There are other things that I already use batch files for. I am good at DOS, I grew up on it but I haven't figures out how to use DOS to do thinks like open a window in the Windows environment.
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