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I think Cliff.H identified the cause. Your editor is probably creating the batch files as Unicode. Here is a way to test. Create a small batch file with “@echo hi”. Using EditPad Pro, this file is normally 10 characters long including the CRLF. If I save it as unicode-8, it’s 13 characters long.

Dr. Who – you listed batch files, Visual Basic files and Registry scripts in your question. “registry script” is actually a misnomer. “registry files” (.reg files) are not programs. They contain data, not commands, and if anyone held the copyright to this data, it would be Microsoft. With scripts, including batch files and VB programs, the order of lines defines the script, and similar but different scripts could be individually copyrighted. There is no differentiation in the order of lines in a registry file, and therefore any ordering would be covered by whatever copyright Microsoft might hold and/or exercise.

Batch files could be copyrighted, but after 30 years of .bat programming by the world, someone would have a hard time proving origin of a comparitively simple script. I have seen some .bat files that were large and complicated, and origin provable, but they accompanied copyrighted software, and without that copyrighted software, they were of no value.

I have a recommendation. I use TB, and this is how I manage my email. I will say this strongly, but keep in mind – to each his own.
If a message is marked as Read, it should NOT still be in the InBox.
**** Use folders. ****
Use a few, or use a lot.
Have one called Newsletters (if you want).
Have one called Read Again Soon (if you want).
Have one called Fun Projects (if you want).
You get the picture.
My recommendation is – use the power of your computer, and TB – use it to organize your email.

Here is what I would try.

Do these steps from a good PC and from the problem PC
First – ping the router > ping 192.168.1.1
Then – ping a website’s IP address such as google > ping 209.85.225.103
Then – ping the website > ping http://www.google.com

If you can’t ping the router, the network connection is not working at all.
If you can’t ping Google’s IP address, you have a router problem.
If you can’t ping Google.com, you have a DNS problem.