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Jumperz Ko
Jumperz Ko

Reputation: 401

BATCH move files to C:\Windows

I'm trying to move sleep.exe and nircmd.exe to C:\Windows using move command in my batch file. The code goes like this

    move "%cd%\sleep.exe" "C:\Windows"
    move "%cd%\nircmd.exe" "C:\Windows"

When I do not use administrator privileges I get error:

    Access denied

But when I use administrator privileges I get error: 

    System cannot find the path specified

EDIT: I also tried:

     move "%cd%\sleep.exe" "C:\users\%username%\desktop"

And that worked, but as I said I want it to move to C:\Windows

Upvotes: 0

Views: 215

Answers (2)

Jumperz Ko
Jumperz Ko

Reputation: 401

I didn't know that administrator mode changes your current director (%cd%) but thanks to @foxidrive i know that now gooled it and found the answer

    @setlocal enableextensions
    @cd /d "%~dp0"

Upvotes: 1

foxidrive
foxidrive

Reputation: 41224

When using administrator it resets the working directory, and which is why it couldn't find the files.

The solution here sets the location of the files to the folder which contains the batch file.

for %%a in ("sleep.exe" "nircmd.exe") do move "%~dp0\%%~a" "C:\Windows"

Upvotes: 1

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