Hi there, I have recently put together a net send messenger in a .bat file for a program of mine.
I would like to make it so, if the "net start messenger" line fails/has an error,
It echo's " messenger service is currently disabled on your computer. press F1 for instructions to enable this service."
anyone know how to code this?
After the command, put echo %ERRORLEVEL% And observe the values printed in various outcomes.
You can test this variable with if/else when you know the values it can have.
In my opinion, the easiest way to do this is simply:
net start messenger || echo Messenger service is currently disabled on your computer. Press F1 for instructions to enable this service.As opposed to && which would run the second command (the echo) only if the first command succeeds, || will run the second command only if the first command fails.
In my opinion, the easiest way to do this is simply:
net start messenger || echo Messenger service is currently disabled on your computer. Press F1 for instructions to enable this service.As opposed to && which would run the second command (the echo) only if the first command succeeds, || will run the second command only if the first command fails.
thankyou! thats exactly what i was after.
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