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Originally posted by marcosetorresc
I had the same problem and after going through the whole batch found the following:
Line 42 "SET LOGVIEWER=%LOGVIEWER:~18%" defines the variable %LOGVIEWER% after extracting the Path for Log Viewer.exe from the registry. This value comes in the form "AppDir REG_SZ C:\Program Files\Messenger Plus! Live\"
When it runs "SET LOGVIEWER=%LOGVIEWER:~18%" it is truncating the first 18 characters of the string, leaving it as "SZ C:\Program Files\Messenger Plus! Live\" when it should be leaving it as "C:\Program Files\Messenger Plus! Live\".
The problem is that the REG command in Vista will convert tabs to 4 spaces instead of leaving tabs to be tabs. So, the REG command does not output exactly the same thing as in XP for which these batch files were created.
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Originally posted by marcosetorresc
How to solve this?
Since I don't exactly by how many characters it will differ on each case, here is a generic procedure:
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Instead of doing all that you simply need to replace the line:
code:
SET LOGVIEWER=%LOGVIEWER:~18%
with the lines:
code:
SET LOGVIEWER=%LOGVIEWER:<tab>=<4spaces>%
SET LOGVIEWER=%LOGVIEWER:~24%
where:
<tab> must be replaced with a TAB character.
<4spaces> must be replaced with 4 spaces.
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Also note that there are a lot more ceavats in these batch files. They are designed for XP, not for Vista. Whenever I have the time I'll update them to the newer versions (which will tackle/fix a lot more problems which you could encounter when you run this on Vista).
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