Add the pause command to the end of the batch file, then trigger it to run.<BR><BR>BTW, you're not referencing any mapped drives in either the batch file or the HotCopy script, are you? They won't ...

Do you have a batch file that must run as admin? Use this trick to save some extra steps on Windows 11.

Since I have done most of my coding for classes (and almost exclusively in Java), I have always just run my programs through the compiler and never had to worry about actually setting it up to run ...