It didn't work!

[Yzöwl]

Thanks smashly.

It is important to learning that we make mistakes, we actually learn more from making mistakes than from never doing so. We probably get more than half a dozen problems per week relating to double quotes or the lack of, and it is good that a thread like this can be used to help others understand.

As a rule, your filepaths and the vast majority of your filenames are under your own control. I would therefore suggest that they never contain spaces. On some occasions however, it is beyond our control, which is why we have to use the escape characters.

[T D]

Look at it like this smashly.

%PP%\AVG Anti Virus Program\autoavgsetup.exe

would execute fine.

"%PP%\AVG Anti Virus Program\autoavgsetup.exe"

would also execute fine from RunOnceEx. Difference between two is quote marks.

I meant that is isn't necessary have a second set of quotes, unless the path has spaces AND it uses switches. The path does have spaces but doesn't have switches so you don't need a second set of quotes.

I would therefore suggest that they never contain spaces.

I second that, it's so much easier without.

Edited June 1, 2006 by T D

[Yzöwl]

You are still wrong, and here is some proof! I used the following batch file to represent the runonceex.cmd

@ECHO OFF

REG ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx /V TITLE /D "Doing a Test" /F >NUL
REG ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx\000 /VE /D "Test App" /F >NUL
REG ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx\000 /V 1 /D "D:\Program Files\Standalone\1by1\1by1.exe" /F >NUL

PING -n 11 LOCALHOST>NUL

RUNDLL32 iernonce.dll,RunOnceExProcess

GOTO :EOF

This is what happened when it ran

Now all I was running was a switchless exe with a space in the file path. Now try it yourself and report back!

Edited June 1, 2006 by Yzöwl

[NicodemusAtNIMH]

Yzöwls, it works finally.

The problem was the slashes.

Some of the other files didn't install right, but alast that is another different post when i figure it out or not.

Thank you all for your help!

[X-Centric]

Ok, sorry to everyone. I was wrong. I was confused between xcopy and reg adds. There shouldnt be any spaces in the path for reg adds. But when copying files it is ok using quotes. Again I was confused. We do learn from our mistakes. I was only trying to help. Topic closed! lol

Edited June 1, 2006 by X-Centric

[T D]

OK we all learn from our mistakes