How do I Un-minimize the prompt after an user minimized it?

[AlexRoda]

My problem is quite simple
And I imagine it has a really easy way to fix it
But no matter how much I searched for it I can't find it
How do I Un-minimize the prompt after an user minimized it?

I'm making a simple timer routine
timeout for an hour
choice
If the user don't input anything it sends the computer to hibernation
The problem I'm facing is
Since it is a program that should stay running on the background until the timer is over its usually minimized
I just need a way to Un-minimize it when the timer runs out so that the user can decide if it wants to continue or not

[Salmon Trout]

You can't get a batch to de-minimize ("restore") itself without using 3rd party utilities like cmdow.exe (for example).

cmdow http://www.commandline.co.uk/

However without any addons you can make one batch (minimized) execute another (not minimized) using the START command.

@echo off

if exist second.bat del second.bat
echo @echo off >> second.bat
echo title SECOND >> second.bat
echo cls >> second.bat
echo echo. >> second.bat
echo echo ********************************** >> second.bat
echo echo * YOU HAVE 30 SECONDS TO RESPOND * >> second.bat
echo echo ********************************** >> second.bat
echo echo. >> second.bat
echo choice /T 30 /C yn /D y /M "Hibernate now Y/N? " >> second.bat
echo if "%%errorlevel%%"=="2" exit >> second.bat

REM edit out the ECHO in capital letters
REM when you are happy it works
REM or insert your hibernate command instead
echo ECHO shutdown /h /t 0 >> second.bat

REM delete these 2 lines when you have debugged
REM and are happy
echo pause >> second.bat
echo exit >> second.bat

title FIRST
echo Please minimize me!
set delay=60
REM or 3600 or whatever
timeout %delay%
start "" "second.bat"

[Salmon Trout]

Of course you don't have to write second.bat every time.

[Salmon Trout]

No need for a second file. Here's another method - the script is started with no command line parameter, then, after the timeout, the script starts itself again, not minimized this time, passing a parameter which makes it jump to a label where the choice, hibernate stuff happens.

@echo off
if "%1"=="2" goto second
title FIRST
echo Please minimize me!
REM or 3600 or whatever
set delay=60
timeout %delay%
start "" "%~dpnx0" 2
exit

:second
title SECOND
echo **********************************
echo * YOU HAVE 30 SECONDS TO RESPOND *
echo **********************************
echo.
choice /T 30 /C yn /D y /M "Hibernate now Y/N? "
if "%errorlevel%"=="2" exit

REM edit out the ECHO in capital letters
REM when you are happy it works
REM or insert your hibernate command here
ECHO shutdown /h /t 0

REM delete these 2 lines when you have debugged
REM and are happy
pause
exit

[AlexRoda]

Thank you very much Salmon Trout!
It was exactly what I needed!