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I'm trying to set up disk space monitoring on one of our systems and while I can get the alert to trigger (i'm using perfmon and alerts), the batch file under "run program" (which calls blat) does not ...

I'm writing a simple batch file to move, then delete files older than 7 days. Using Robocopy for the move, then using Forfile to search the old files and Del for the deletion of files. My problem is ...

In this example, we assume you want to defrag 4 drives. You need to edit the list to match the drives that you want to defragment using the batch file. If you want to defrag just one drive, then ...

In this post, I am going to share steps to create a Zip archive folder using a Batch file in Windows 11/10. For this, I will be doing this with the help of 7-Zip software. 7-Zip is a free and open ...

You're probably aware that most files have an extension such as TXT or EXE after the file name, even though these are not always displayed in Windows. File extensions are how Windows knows what to do ...