How to output a window to a text file?

windows batch-file activation
user2997654 picture user2997654 · Mar 6, 2014 · Viewed 14.5k times · Source

I'm designing a batch file to first check if a copy of windows is activated (using the slmgr /xpr command) and if it isn't input a key to activate it. I have everything done except for the checking for activation as when you run the slmgr /xpr command, it outputs to a windows host script dialogue box and I can't figure out how to have that box output its text into a text file to use as a variable. Does anyone know how to do this/ has a better way? Thanks in advance!

Answer

JonPall picture JonPall · Mar 6, 2014

Use cscript to output text from slmgr to the console.

cscript slmgr.vbs /xpr

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