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I hope at the right forum for this topic but if i'm not please feel free to move it where it belongs.

I have a lot of cleaning software that i'm using to keep my computer free of spywares or surfing traces and also to remove some unwanted entries.

This is what i'm using:

Window Washer

HD Valet

Trojan Hunter

Spy Sweeper

Norton 2k4

Ad-Aware

SpyBot Search & Destroy

RegScrub

RegFirstAid

Registry Mechanic

what i'm looking for is a batch file that will allow me to have some of them doing their job without me having to open and start one by one.

I don't know if it's faisable but if you have any knowledge on how to do that please let me know or if you want to try a batch file that i can use feel free to send me a private message.

Many thanks for your time again.

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Well i must be doing something wrong, this is what i have now in the file:

@ECHO OFF

START C:\Program Files\HDvalet\hdvalet.exe

PAUSE

START C:\Program Files\Webroot\Washer\washer.exe

PAUSE

START C:\Program Files\Webroot\Spy Sweeper\SpySweeper.exe

PAUSE

START C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware6\Ad-aware.exe

PAUSE

END

I'm trying to start it up but i have this error message on the screen:

Windows cannot find 'C:\Program'. Make sure you typed the name correctly.......etc...

so now i feel dumb again and i don't know if there's anythin wrong in what i have added.

Any ideas ?

:cry:

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noir,

I replaced Program Files with Progra~1 and it's working only for the first software that i want to start:

@ECHO OFF

START C:\Progra~1\HDValet\hdvalet.exe

START C:\Progra~1\Webroot\Washer\washer.exe

START C:\Progra~1\Webroot\Spy Sweeper\SpySweeper.exe

START C:\Progra~1\Lavasoft\Ad-aware6\Ad-aware.exe

END

HDValet is starting but the other ones are giving me the same error message.

I verified to see where are exactly the .exe files and they are where it's specified in the configuration.

Thanks for your time again

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Well as far as i can see the 2 files that are not working are exactly where it is specified, Spy Sweeper is working and it's under Webroot/Spy Sweeper/SpySweeper.exe, so Window Washer is also under Webroot but in the folder Washer/Washer.exe....

For Ad-Aware it's under Lavasoft/Ad-aware6/Ad-aware.exe

I'm a little bit confuse because i was expecting all the programs to start automatically scanning without me having to click on Start or Scan. I don't know if they allow that kind of behavior but i can live with that.

Again if you have more ideas about how to make that work i'll appreciate it and thanks again for your help.

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the way i've always had to do it is like this:

@ECHO OFF
CD /D "C:\Program Files\HDValet"
START hdvalet.exe
CD /D "C:\Program Files\Webroot\Washer"
START washer.exe
CD /D "C:\Program Files\Webroot\Spy Sweeper"
START SpySweeper.exe
CD /D "C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Ad-aware6"
START Ad-aware.exe
END

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Thanks cpugeniusmv,

I'm going to try that also and see if it's working.

The other options that i have are half working but it's a start and if i can have something that is fully working including the scanning that starts automatically i'll be the happiest man on earth :)

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Update,

Ad-Aware is now working and scanning automatically, this is the line that i have now for it:

call "c:\program files\lavasoft\ad-aware 6\ad-aware.exe" "C:\" +a +1

cls

I'm still looking for Window Washer to start and scan, i have Spy Sweeper opening but not scanning.....lots of fun trying to do that :cool:

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