>That was it, but I thought SLEEP was a 3rd-party utility? I didn't exepect that to work without having installed something.
Oh, apparently you are right, I see I have Sleep.EXE in Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools, to tell you the truth, I was about to recommend you to use vbs for your bats are getting more sophisticated, but before trying to write the code in vbs using Sleep API within vbs, I tried Sleep in a batch and worked to my surprise.
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"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
Donald Knuth, repeating C. A. R. Hoare
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