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PORunning a batch script by right clicking any file
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copied!<p>The idea is to right click any file and then select "backup" in a drop down that just copies the file and adds a date time to the end of its name, then possibly moves that copy to another drive. </p> <p>I would like a method of running a batch script by right clicking on a file and either passing that in as an argument (without typing it in), or somehow knowing that file is the one that should be used in the script. </p> <p>Mainly for windows XP, I need it to be native as many site computers I work on do not belong to us and I don't want to copy over more files than necessary or rely on anything more than the standard commands available (two thirds of the machines don't have powershell ect) </p> <p>I know how you can change file options to open a cmd at a specific folder location(below), and I cold probably change this to work for 1 specific file type, but I don't want to add a key for each type of file on the machine. </p> <p>[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\1.bat\command] @="c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe \"%1\"" </p> <p>From another site one work around that nearly solves this for me</p> <p>jvierra - "Windows has always had that ability without changing the registry.</p> <p>Place a bat or VBS file on your desktop. Drag and drop a file on the bat icon. The bat will receive the file name of the dropped file as %1 and vbscript will receive it as WScript.Arguments(0).</p> <p>Try it. It works quite well. The bat or script can do anything with the file from that point."</p>

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