PC Stats has posted a beginners guide about understanding and creating batch files
"In this Beginners Guide, PCSTATS is going to going to walk you through one of the simplest but potentially most powerful ways to customize and simplify the management of your computer: batch files. These text files are easy to create, and only as complex as you want them to be, but they can perform many useful operations from file backups to system configuration quickly and automatically. In this guide we'll illustrate what batch files are good for and how to create them."
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