Resume batch script after computer restart

Question

I have a bunch of old machines running Windows 2000 Pro and IE 5.0 which I want to upgrade to IE 6 with Silverlight. I downloaded the IE6 and Silverlight installers from Mi

Answer 1

I know its a bit old but this works amazingly:

@echo off
call :Resume
goto %current%
goto :eof

:one
echo two >>myfile.cmd
::REBOOT HERE
goto :eof

:two
echo resumed here
goto :eof

:resume
rem THIS PART SHOULD BE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FILE
set current=one

Answer 2

You could put the second command in a exclusive batch file, and add an entry to regedit to execute this batch file automatically upon Windows' start, making silverlight be executed after the computer restarts.

Have you heard of msconfig? On some systems the regedit PATH you are looking for is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

But you may want to check that. If you want to make a batch file to write that key on the registry, you probably should take a look at this tutorial.

Answer 3

Based on Tim's post which, when tested, appended "two" to the batch file resulting in a failure to find the batch label "onetwo", so amended to read & write the "current" variable from a seperate text file, leaving the batch file untouched;

@echo off
call :Resume
goto %current%
goto :eof

:one
::Add script to Run key
reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run /v %~n0 /d %~dpnx0 /f
echo two >%~dp0current.txt
echo -- Section one --
pause
shutdown -r -t 0
goto :eof

:two
echo three >%~dp0current.txt
echo -- Section two --
pause
shutdown -r -t 0
goto :eof

:three
::Remove script from Run key
reg delete HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run /v %~n0 /f
del %~dp0current.txt
echo -- Section three --
pause
goto :eof

:resume
if exist %~dp0current.txt (
    set /p current=<%~dp0current.txt
) else (
    set current=one
)

Answer 4

If you do the IE6 installation with the command ie6setup.exe /q /r:n then it won't reboot automatically (see this page for details). Then theoretically you could install SilverLight immediately, and then reboot afterwards; but there is a chance that the SL install will refuse due to the need of a reboot, but it won't hurt to try it...