From: timrude.nospam@nospam.hotmail.com   
      
   On 8/14/2017 4:25 PM, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:   
   > On 14.08.2017 21:50, Tim Rude wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> for /f "usebackq tokens=1,2,*" %%B IN (`reg query   
   >>>> "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Shell Folders" /v Desktop`) do set DT=%%D   
   >>   
   >> but if there is a nifty way to do something similar using the SET   
   >> command, I'm all ears.   
   >   
   > Replace:   
   > do set DT=%%D   
   >   
   > by:   
   > do call set DT=%%D   
   >   
      
   Interesting!   
      
   However, the second 'for' statement in my working batch file did double   
   duty. In addition to expanding %DT% it also converted the expanded path   
   into it's short filename equivalent using the ~s modifier.   
      
   for /f "usebackq tokens=*" %%I in (`echo %DT%`) do set DESKTOP=%%~sI   
      
   If I try to roll the ~s modifier into your corrected first 'for'   
   statement it doesn't work properly. I get the expanded path tacked onto   
   the current path. I.e., the following doesn't work right:   
      
   for /f "usebackq tokens=1,2,*" %%B IN (`reg query   
   "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User   
   Shell Folders" /v Desktop`) do call set DT=%%~sD   
      
   So it seems I need to do the second 'for' statement anyway to do the   
   short filename conversion.   
      
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