batch file help

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  1. ivwshane We are all old school!

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    How would I create a batch file that does the following:

    Open program A
    Open program B
    Waits till program B is closed by the user and then closes program A
    Exits


    Neither program is a native windows program.
    ivwshane, Apr 27, 2009
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  2. ShabazKillaX I'm an F18 bro

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    To my knowledge you cannot do that in a batch file. Your probably going to have to use vbscript or something similar.
    ShabazKillaX, Apr 27, 2009
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  3. tex jive turkey

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    thats _exactly_ what i was going to say. vbscript
    tex, Apr 27, 2009
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  4. ivwshane We are all old school!

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    How hard is it to do in vb and what software do I need to do it with?
    ivwshane, Apr 27, 2009
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  5. ivanolo Junior Member

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    ivanolo, Apr 27, 2009
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  6. hans5849 Serious as a heart attack

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    This is what I use for autoinstalling some things on first run of XP

    Code:
    @echo off
title Windows AutoInstaller

ECHO.
ECHO Over the next few minutes you will see automated installations 
ECHO of various sofware applications, windows updates, and registry
ECHO tweaks being implemented. The computer will restart automatically
ECHO once the whole process has finished!
ECHO
ECHO Installing Windows Installer 
ECHO Please wait...
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\WindowsXP-KB942288-v3-x86.exe /passive /norestart
ECHO
ECHO Installing .NET Framework v1.1 SP1
ECHO Please wait...
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\0_dotNET11SP1.exe /ai
ECHO
ECHO Installing .NET Framework v3.5
ECHO Please wait...
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\dotnetfx35\wcu\dotNetFramework\dotNetFx35setup.exe /q:a /c:"setup.exe /q /norestart" /norestart
ECHO
ECHO Installing Windows Components
ECHO Please wait...
start /wait %windir%\system32\sysocmgr.exe /i:%windir%\inf\sysoc.inf /u:%systemdrive%\install\sysoc.inf /r /q 

echo.
pause
exit
    hans5849, Apr 27, 2009
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