Something change in the last windows XP update

[Guest francoisbrochu@yahoo.com]

as part of my logonscript I like to change some of the setting for

user so I use a batch file like this test.bat:

 

if NOT "%USERNAME%" == "Administrator" (

set windozPref=hello

echo %windozPref% world

)

 

 

1- run test.bat

you expect "hello world" to be echoed, but no it echo world

2- run set

you will see windozPref=hello

3- run test.bat

one more time it will echo "hello world"

4- run set windozPref=

set will reveal it's unset

5- for fun add this line to test.bat "set windozPref=foo" before the

IF statment

test.bat now look like this

 

set windozPref=foo

if NOT "%USERNAME%" == "Administrator" (

set windozPref=hello

echo %windozPref% world

)

 

 

6- run test.bat

it will echo "foo world"

7- run it again it still echo "foo world"

run set, look "windozPref=hello"

 

I really don't know why this behavoiur change in the last month, it

work just fine last month