Dos command sleep windows xp

Try the Choice command. The one thing that might be an issue is if the user types one of the choice characters before the timeout period elapses. Below is the help text on Windows Vista. I think it is the same on XP, but look at the help text on an XP computer to verify. If the accuracy of the wait time is important ie a second or two extra delay is not acceptable , you can use this approach:. This takes the time when the windows command was issued, and the powershell script sleeps until 5 seconds after that time.

Is like pause in 1 secound, you can take the limed to almost If you are connected to the internet the best solution would be:. When you ping you count in milliseconds, so one second would be milliseconds. But the ping command is a little iffy, it does not work the same way on offline machines. So i would recommend timeout. Good luck! PING 1. I ended up using sleep.

So far, using sleep. Firstly, to delay in a batch file, simply without all the obtuse methods people have been proposing:. Secondly, worth mentioning that while it may not do exactly what you want, using the inbuilt Windows snipping tool, you can trigger a snip on it without using the mouse.

You can use VBScript , for example, file myscript. There is a 1s delay between each ping, so for a 10s delay you need to do 11 pings, i. II recommend to use Show 12 more comments. Default list is "YN".

The message before the prompt is displayed and the choices are still enabled. By default, the utility is case-insensitive. Acceptable values are from 0 to If 0 is specified, there will be no pause and the default choice is selected.

If not specified, the utility displays only a prompt. Displays this help message. The first choice listed returns a value of 1, the second a value of 2, and so on. If the user presses a key that is not a valid choice, the tool sounds a warning beep. Adam Porad Adam Porad This site computerhope. Works fine. Oh man The command is greate, but unfortunally not native in windows XP. But you can simply copy the choice. Add a comment. The following hack let's you sleep for 5 seconds ping -n 6 OldMcDonald 11 11 silver badges 33 33 bronze badges.

This should be -n 6. Otherwise you just wait 4 seconds. Remember that ping waits 1 second between pings, so you always have to specify one more try than you need. This is a much better solution than pinging a presumed non-existing IP, which by the way fails when network is down. Pinging localhost almost always works. If you've got PowerShell on your system, you can just execute this command: powershell -command "Start-Sleep -s 5" Edit: people raised an issue where the amount of time powershell takes to start is significant compared to how long you're trying to wait for.

Subtract get-date. Niall Connaughton Niall Connaughton Simply loading up PowerShell takes a few seconds. I ended up using this myself. Running the plain 5 second sleep takes about 5. Using the second script I posted gets the inaccuracy down to around 20 - 30 milliseconds. If you need more accuracy than this, I doubt you'll get it from the ping approach either. NiallConnaughton Can you test with —NoProfile and see how much that affects the speed?

Apparently there are 6 potential profiles that PowerShell will try to load if you don't pass -NoProfile. On my current system, there's a ms cost to starting powershell, and -noprofile isn't improving that.

However, this machine is not on a corporate domain with a roaming profile, etc. Good suggestion. Show 3 more comments. Alex Alex 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. Chris Marisic Not sure how to use it, but it doesn't seem to fit the bill. Not what I was looking for here, but thanks for this one anyway - it'll come in useful later.

Show 1 more comment. If you are connected to the internet the best solution would be: ping 1. Alex Nolasco Jonathan Jonathan 5 5 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. Pinging to 1. It causes network traffic. Ping to localhost instead. The point of pinging an unreachable IP address is to cause the command to wait for a response and timeout after the specified time.

Why not use something like I've seen it used many times as a very bad example of an "unreachable" address. I shudder to think of all the scripts that suddenly broke when Cloudflare started responding to pings on 1.

Amir Amir 1, 15 15 silver badges 24 24 bronze badges. Sorry, but I have to downvote an answer that assumes the unreachability of 1. Ned Martin Ned Martin 5 5 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. There is! MODE Configures a system device. MORE Displays output one screen at a time. MOVE Moves one or more files from one directory to another directory. PATH Displays or sets a search path for executable files. RD Removes a directory. REN Renames a file or files. SET Displays, sets, or removes Windows environment variables.

SORT Sorts input. TIME Displays or sets the system time. EXE session. TREE Graphically displays the directory structure of a drive or path. TYPE Displays the contents of a text file. VOL Displays a disk volume label and serial number. The Physical address is given as 6 hexadecimal bytes separated by hyphens.

The entry is permanent. If not present, the first applicable interface will be used. Adds a static entry. Displays the arp table. If ASSOC is invoked with just a file extension, it displays the current file association for that file extension. Specify nothing for the file type and the command will delete the association for the file extension. AT The AT command schedules commands and programs to run on a computer at a specified time and date. The Schedule service must be running to use the AT command.

Commands are scheduled on the local computer if this parameter is omitted. If id is omitted, all the scheduled commands on the computer are canceled. If date is omitted, the current day of the month is assumed. R Read-only file attribute. A Archive file attribute. S System file attribute. H Hidden file attribute. INI file. You must specify the entry to delete. It has no effect under Windows XP.

Wildcards can be used to specify more that one file in a command. You can specify more than one user in a command. Abbreviations: CI - Container Inherit. The ACE will be inherited by directories. OI - Object Inherit. The ACE will be inherited by files. IO - Inherit Only. CALL [drive:][path]filename [batch-parameters] batch-parameters Specifies any command-line information required by the batch program.

The syntax is: CALL :label arguments A new batch file context is created with the specified arguments and control is passed to the statement after the label specified. You must "exit" twice by reaching the end of the batch script file twice. The first time you read the end, control will return to just after the CALL statement. The second time will exit the batch script. Specifies that you want to change to the parent directory. Type CD drive: to display the current directory in the specified drive.

Type CD without parameters to display the current drive and directory. CHDIR command does not treat spaces as delimiters, so it is possible to CD into a subdirectory name that contains a space without surrounding the name with quotes.

CHCP [nnn] nnn Specifies a code page number. Type CHCP without a parameter to display the active code page number. If size is not specified, displays current size. If time is not specified, displays the current setting. Excluded drives are not accumulated between command invocations. The encrypted file could become decrypted when it is modified if the parent directory is not encrypted.

It is recommended that you encrypt the file and the parent directory. Directories will be marked so that files added afterward will not be encrypted. Directories will be marked so that files added afterward will be encrypted. Already-encrypted objects are skipped by default.

These files are omitted by default. If this option is chosen, all the other options will be ignored. This will prevent keys being updated. This is used to find all the encrypted files on the local drives. PFX file containing certificate and private key and a. CER file containing only the certificate.

An administrator may add the contents of the. PFX to recover individual files. This will update user's file encryption key or recovery agent's key to the current ones if they are changed. If this option is chosen, all other options are ignored. The directory specified can be anywhere in a local volume. DOS commands are useful to Windows users for a variety of reasons. Many tasks that can be performed in the Windows graphical environment can be performed much more quickly and efficiently by utilizing DOS commands.

Also, most bootable floppy disks will boot the system directly to a DOS environment.