Remove the "cd " from in front of the drive letters. Thusly

C:
dir /s /b *Temp
pause
G:
dir /s /b *Temp
pause

See below.

*** This command does precisely nothing. If you want to make
*** drive C: your current working drive then you simply type this:
*** C: {Enter}

*** I suspect you mean this command:
*** dir /s /b c:\temp{Enter}

*** G:{Enter}

*** dir \temp{Enter}, or
*** dir G:\temp{Enter}

If you want your batch file to work no matter where it is located then
you MUST specify three things:
1. The drive letter;
2. The folder name;
3. The file name.

The above commands lack two of the three things, hence they fail
most of the time.

You don't need the cd command.

Try this version:

c:
dir /s /b *Temp
pause
g:
dir /s /b *Temp
pause
v:
dir /s /b *Temp
pause

The date and time was 5/23/2008 6:52 AM, and on a whim, Tim.T pounded
out on the keyboard:

Hi Tim,

CD stands for Change Directory.  So, cd C: is incorrect as C: is not a
directory.  I don't see how it works at a command prompt.

Try this:

c:
dir /s /b *Temp
pause

g:
dir /s /b *Temp
pause

v:
dir /s /b *Temp
pause

As soon as I posted this I figured it out. Basically I forgot to add the
drive letter before the "*Temp" bit. Thus, "dir /b /s C:\*Temp*, etc. Also I
didn't need the "CD" bits.

Tim

Once you have your head around them, they will <g>.

Any idea what I'm doing

Then it simply needs to reside somewhere in the "Path", most logically
probably your Program Files directory/folder.  Directory = Folder; same
thing.

That's because of your "CD C:" line.  It has to be simply "   C:   " CD
only works for "Change Directory"; drives are not directories(folders).

"CD C:" does not work as you expect from the command prompt.  It does
something, but not what you expect.  Your following DIR will display
whatever drive you were on when you executed the CD, NOT the one on C:.
Look closer and you'll see it.  Or just hit Return and you'll see you're
still on the original drive, not C.

The correct command is simply "drive:" or, C: for instance.  THEN,
regardless of where you were, you will go to the drive C: root
directory.

Assuming the batch file also does the deletions, which you have not
indicated in your code above:

In addition to the other posts, I'd just like to add something I didn't
notice mentioned and directly respond to a couple points you made:
   IF a particular temp file happens to be in use you can not delete
it.  That's going to cause the batch file to present an error message at
delete time.  You can often avoid that if you make running the batch
file the very first thing you do after a boot.  Or, employ the
appropriate error catching techniques.

In order for a .bat to work "no matter where it's located on your PC",
two things are necessary:
  The .bat file either:
--  MUST reside in the folder you execute it from, OR
--  The .bat file MUST be in the path.  This is the best answer to your
problem rather than having several batch files spread all over the
place.  A logical place to put it for produtcion use would be your
Program Files folder.  Then it'll run no matter where you execute it
from.  Because it's in the "path".

IF the batch file resides anywhere that is NOT in the path, then you
will also have to use fully qualified paths within the file; e.g.
c:\windows\temp...\... , which I don't think is what you want to do.

HTH

Twayne