ronjacq

Answers to the last two posts. The reason I was using the SHUTDOWN command rather than the /SHUTDOWN ccleaner parameter was that on my old XP machine, the /SHUTDOWN parameter waited nearly a minute to act, whereas, I could code "T00" on the SHUTDOWN command to make it run immediately. I tried removing the "/i" parameter, however, the script did not wait for the ccleaner program to close. It ran my SHUTDOWN command immediately. I also tried using the "/B" parameter to not run ccleaner in another window and got the same results just described. As for the description of the "/wait" parameter, I agree that the language is rather ambiguous to me as well. I am satisfied using the ccleaner /SHUTDOWN parameter for now and will continue to nose around for a way to have the batch file wait for the program initiated by the "start" command to complete.

Thanks DennisD and Alan_B for all your good advice. I was working on this last night and also found my way to superuser.com and other sites which recommended the "start" command. I tried several iterations of it to no avail. However, the advice to look up all the parameters of the "start" command via the command prompt by entering "start /?" yielded some good ideas. My batch file follows: Echo %Date% %Time% %1 cClean and Restart Procedure :: start /d "c:\Program Files\CCleaner\" /i /wait CCleaner64 /AUTO /RESTART :: :: start /wait shutdown -f -R -t 00 The key was putting the path in the /d parameter and leaving the command by itself free of quotation marks. The /wait parameter does not work, however, so when I first tried it with the Shutdown command not commented out, below the ccleaner command, the shutdown initiated immediately upon the start of the ccleaner program. Thus it shut it down immediately before it could do its work. I settled on using the /SHUTDOWN ccleaner parameter instead. It would be nice to know how to keep the batch file from progressing until the ccleaner command was complete. Thanks again for all your help. Ron

Thanks Dennis. When I ran your command as the target of a shortcut, it worked fine on my Windows 8 machine; however, when I ran it as one of several commands in a batch file it didn't seem to recognize the /AUTO at all but also did not open the cCleaner application normally either. Ron Kaplan

I recently installed cCleaner on a new Toshiba 64 bit laptop running Windows 8. cCleaner runs fine if I start it from the Desktop icon; however, if I execute it in a .bat file with the /AUTO parameter, the program opens and closes in a split second and performs no cleaning actions. If I remove the /AUTO parameter from the command, cCleaner opens normally allowing me to interact with the software. I never had this issue on my old XP machines. The command I execute is: c:\"program files"\cCleaner\cCleaner64.exe /AUTO Any advice would be appreciated.