Windows Users: How many Exicutables Do You Have in your System32 folder?

How many Exicutables do you have in your directory "%SYSTEMROOT%\System32". if you do not know how to find this i have attached a txt file which is actually a batch file that will copy all system32 exe's to the "%TMP%" location, after copy is complete, it will say "### files copied" which tells you how many files are in there.

just something to do...

colton22

ps: i have 328 exe's on my desktop computer

my laptop has 342 files...

colton22

ps dont be afraid to post

357, you should make it delete all the exe's from your tmp folder, otherwise you have to do it manually

when you clear all the cookies and internet temp files it will clear it out anyway, or did i send it to the windows temp?

colton22

I've a huge load of batch files in my WINNT directory as well..

Automation, my friends!

312.....why copy files with a batch file?

From CMD:


Gives a file count at the bottom.

Yes yes but batch files are fun to play with =) he he.
Im on an NT box and I have 284 in \winnt\system32 folder. you could also make a list of your exes at the command prompt.

For NT users such as myself it would be of course

=)

yes it is, sometimes too much fun to play with, i had to reformat my computer i had for about 1 month, then so far i havnt batch scripted latly

colton22

Ya i wrote a program for a friend of mine that put a bat file in almost every directory it could find and then one that set a time to run them all (AT) and some were like copy all the .exe from the system32 to the startup folder. =) needless to say. He doesnt ask me to work on his computer any more lol. Dont worry I wouldn't have done it if he wasn't a cheap skate free loader lol. The only thing the program did that i wrote was put the content into all the bats.

how would you search for all directories or search for files with ms-dos batch files, ive been trying that for a while.?.

colton22

I just used if else statements and really I guess I should say I used mainly known directories and the directories I already knew existed. but one way is to do a "dir /b > file.txt" then have another one send a file to each one in the line =). Now you have to remember I didnt do it all with the bat files but all the fun stuff I did. but the easiest way if is with combo your bats with an exe if possible =). But Im a newb sooo.

Pretty good link that you probably have already found but take a peek.