title: application loader / window builder
body: <p>Long time reader of posts first time posting, firstly thanks for a great site I couldn’t do my job without this site half the time.</p>
  
  <p>My question is I currently have a batch file that I run on our clients that maps network drives copy files from the server to a Ram drive 
  And then runs the application code below. What I need to do is replace this with a nice looking GUI window. I have looked at some task automation apps (vtask studio, winautomation, visual cron) but none have the ability to create a window.
  Ideally the start up would go something like, welcome to loader ping the server if it gets a reply then continues with the file copy a progress bar would be great.
  Essentially build a nice looking application loader I’m running window 7 pro on the clients Windows server 2008 R2 for the server.    </p>
  
  <p>Any and all suggestions gratefully received thanks in advance !</p>
  
  <p>Code:</p>
  
  <pre>
  :START 
  @echo off
  TIMEOUT /T 15
  NET USE m: /delete
  NET USE n: /delete
  NET USE n: \\SERVER\Apps 
  NET USE m: \\SERVER\Media 
  NET USE l: \\SERVER\Logs
  MD d:\Apps
  XCOPY n:\*.* d:\Apps\ /Y /H /E /B
  TIMEOUT /T 5
  mklink /D C:\Apps D:\Apps
  TIMEOUT /T 5
  START /MIN /WAIT "Launcher" "C:\Apps\shortcuts\Launcher.Lnk"
  START /MIN E:\PY.BAT
  TIMEOUT /T 10
  START /MIN "reader" "C:\Apps\shortcuts\Reader.Lnk"
  TIMEOUT /T 5
  :LAUNCH
  ECHO %Time% %Date% "Launching Application"  >>"%MyLogFile%"
  START /MIN /WAIT "Launcher" "C:\Apps\applications\Launch.lnk" 
  GOTO LAUNCH
  </pre>