After running Windows Update, a customer called me about her DOS application not working properly. A little bit of research and I noticed the batch file I had modified a couple years back to accomodate her new Windows XP system is now failing. Apparently, the updates have flipped the functionality of my modifications. By simply removing the modifications I had made, everything went back to normal.

I'm guessing enough people complained about having to fix batch files and Microsoft released a patch. Unfortunately, this has broken my workaround.

If you run into a batch file that has the forcedos command and doesnt' work like in the past, remove the command as a quick test.

( always make backups of files before making modifications .. especially on old batch files ! )

 

 

( WinXP Pro )