Wait in a BAT file - Vista x64

m4cc45 · 28 Apr 2008 at 10:23

Hi,

I need to pause my bat file for a few seconds (as Windows initialises).

Normally I'd do:

WAIT 10

But this isn't in Vista. Is there any other command / way anyone knows of?

Thanks,

M.

m4cc45 · 28 Apr 2008 at 10:54

Ignore I just downloaded wait.exe

Sometimes the obvious things are the hardest to think of!

M.

JayMax · 28 Apr 2008 at 14:01

wait isn't a native command is it?

I use:

ping 127.0.0.1 -n 10 >nul

that should do the same thing I think.

randal · 28 Apr 2008 at 14:06

sleep x (where x=seconds)

Unless that's not in Vista?

K.C. Leblanc · 28 Apr 2008 at 17:35

Might be worth having a look at AutoIT. It's a handy scripting language, especialy if like me you have a hatred of VB script.

m4cc45 · 28 Apr 2008 at 21:34

WAIT was native in pre-vista machines but it's not in the current one.

SLEEP is also not in Vista.

The PING idea is a good one but as I'm only doing it local to this one machine downloading wait.exe was fine.

Thanks for the ideas though!

M.