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Well that would confirm the guess about a strange timing issue (whatever it might cause it) on the specific system only when running the AutoIT. IF this timing issue is connected to "software", if you restore to the "queer machine" a sysprepped image coming from another one BEFORE the update, maybe you can re-run the autoit successfully, if it's a hardware originated issue, you should not (unless it was a one-time glitch in the matrix). jaclaz

Why not simply introduce some error control? This assumes that username has no spaces (and that an user name "MickeyMouse" does not exist on that system ) jaclaz

Actually it's NO deal at all. jaclaz

No, the text won't "blink" THE WHOLE page will disappear (CLS) and then re-appear (ECHO) (and thus ALL the text on the page will appear to blink). If you had actually READ the OP question it is about "managing" SINGLE lines and NOT the whole screen and he actually excluded in his post the use of CLS. So you posted TWICE the same thing, BOTH times answering *another thing* from what was originally asked. Check this page: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ansi.php (already provided) if you scroll a bit down it you will see an example of ANSI <Esc>[5m under DOS. jaclaz

Well I believe he did the best he could do to make the question visible, and he added also a "Please attention" that is very useful and needed, in case you were not paying enough attention , a typo can happen to everyone . Ideas: http://www.scrabble-word-finder.com/words-with-atotr.html Or maybe he is playing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddler jaclaz

Windows 98's do not provide the key "locationinformation", but does Me behave like that as well? I am asking because Windows 2000 does show it, and Me - when it comes to drivers/devices - tends to be similar to 2K. jaclaz

UNfortunately, NO. You seem like having done everything to troubleshoot the issue, the only thing would be (long, and boring, and with no guarantee whatsoever of success) to run the update script after having removed a few updates from it, then restore, remove a few others until you don' t have the effect.. If you already installed all the updates one by one and you did not have that result, it must mean that is the combination of the updates and the script that causes the issue (maybe a timing problem of some kind ). What you could further do (which I don't seem to see as listed in the attempts) is to uninstall the TCP/IP stack and related other services/protocols/whatever listed in the NIC interface, then uninstall the actual NIC card from device management and reboot. But it is just a "semi-random" thought/attempt. jaclaz

Yzöwl , the OP already tested the proposed solution, modified it a little according to his needs and is using it successfully (for his needs): This thread (actualy the issue that originated it) was "closed" until DataCracker7899 revived it by re-posting (incompletely) the SAME info already posted in it. jaclaz

Stick with those topics. Let me doubt about the "Batch" : jaclaz

Interesting you managed to worsen your own code, posted only a couple posts before: by removing the ping loop. And AGAIN that has NOTHING to do with "blinking" text, it is all about endless looping the CLS and ECHO commands. jaclaz

For NO apparent reason : jaclaz

Please take into consideration that a number of people may not like to be treated as demented by kids (please read as Geniuses) in an Apple Store and resolve to buying their Mac on Amazon.... jaclaz

14? 13 years as the sole alumnus of "MySQL , JavaScript , HTML5 and Batch Security Development School" must have been tough. jaclaz

A bit outdated, but just in case : http://www.oooninja.com/2008/05/openofficeorg-microsoft-office-moores.html And some more info on how I personally see the matter: jaclaz

That's "strange" normally the Fn keys are mapped "in BIOS" and work "before and outside" the OS. :jaclaz

Sometimes I wonder If the good MS guys have not looked at the calendar recently and realized it is 2013. There are NO meaningful "added features" to MS Office since Office 2000 (yes, you read that right office-two-thousand), The stupid change of the format of the file has evidently made easier for the competitors to reach even better compatibility that before (and anyway the compatibility had reached something like 99,95% even with the old proprietary .doc and .xls). As a matter of fact, besides the total aberration which is the "ribbon", when you dig deeper, some functions were MISSING in later versions, example: There are so many valid replacements for Office, some completely Free/Open Source, some Commercial, but priced correctly, that the actual costs for a company will be the time spent to test them to choose the one that they will use INSTEAD of the new-license-formula-Office or Office 364. jaclaz

Yep , confirmed. The real value "inside" your post is: timestamp='1360779094' Which should mean: http://ibboard.co.uk/timestamp.php?timestamp=1360779094&tz=0 13/2/2013, 12:11 with GMT-6 whilst bhplt's post is: timestamp='1360811499' http://ibboard.co.uk/timestamp.php?timestamp=1360811499&tz=0 13/2/2013, 21:11 with GMT-6 jaclaz

NOT really. There is must be something buggy in the way the board software manages dates/times. I already noticed it in some other occasions, the issue is normally because the stupid board software replaces the actual date with "today" or "yesterday", sometimes making absurds things, but evidently there is something else . RIght now, I see your first post as posted on the 13th, and bhplt's post on "yesterday" (which here means the 14th), but according to your screenshot you posted the first post on 13 February at 12:11 PM. You then edited it on 13 February at 12:12 PM. bhplt then managed to reply INSTANTLY on 13 February at 12:11 PM (he COULD NOT POSSIBLY have posted at the shown 9:11 PM quoting something you would have posted for the first time 3 hours later ). You were cross-posting/cross-editing at the same time, all within one minute between minute 11 and minute 12. jaclaz

Or get nircmd: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html Which is also useful for a ton other tasks. Which OS? If Vista or 7, check this also: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/window-on-windows/how-do-i-copy-shortcuts-to-the-all-users-folders-in-vista-or-windows-7/1857 jaclaz

Sounds like what it would be like to live in a surrealistic film... Naah, that's part of the fun. The original quote is by Giuseppe Prezzolini: from a book published in 1921, "Codice della vita italiana" a perfect snapshot (largely valid still today) of the defects (and features) of the Italians (and consequently of Italy), Chapter VI, 40. Available here: http://neapoliscallsnapoli.ilcannocchiale.it/?TAG=Codice%20della%20vita%20italiana the Google translate is not that bad (or at least it is good enough to appreciate most of the humour and tradegy): http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fneapoliscallsnapoli.ilcannocchiale.it%2F%3FTAG%3DCodice%2520della%2520vita%2520italiana If I may, most probably because it didn't fit on the paper sheet a sentence has ben cut out off the above article, the original read (maybe ): jaclaz

Real , but not "persistent" : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704681904576317781140034982.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11474311 or maybe it is: http://en.daringtodo.com/2012/10/l-o-v-e-the-finger-will-grace-piazza-affari-for-least-40-years/ let's say that s provisional for some 40 years. You'll learn how often in Italy anything that is "temporary" becomes actually "perpetual" and anything that is "permanent" will be changed within a short period of times. jaclaz

I would go to device manager and remove the hardware involved, then reboot. jaclaz

Harass paying customers? jaclaz

Well, not really "news" , already talked to death around here: Your quote is from the mentioned blog by Nadim Kobeissi: http://log.nadim.cc/?p=78 seemingly from an earlier version, missing Update2 and Update3. jaclaz

Somethng like: http://sourceforge.net/projects/swttournament/?source=directory jaclaz