So you want to pause a batch file for a few seconds.  Unfortunately windows doesn’t provide a very simple way of doing this.   I wanted to run ‘netstat -b’ 25 seconds after a user logged into their computer as to give the computer enough time to start up all background applications.  But, there is no wait function in batch files.  Well I found a workaround.  If you use the ‘-n’ argument with the ping command you can specify the amount of time to run a ping for.  Thus ping -n 60 127.0.0.1 will ping your local host for 60 seconds.  This will more or less keep the batch file at a standstill for a specified number of seconds before continuing.  In my case I used it for a pause in a login script.
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