Question: i have a problem of hand cursor i m currently selecting the text and highlighting it but problem is i want a hand cursor on the highlighting text 

here is the running code of the problem any suggestion 

<http://jsfiddle.net/8mdX4/135/>

and i want to run it in the IE8

Answer: 
Actually, the problem is *not* on the first line. 

The problem is that `cmd` does variable substitution immediately when it parses the `IF` statement, including its body. Therefore the line:

```
IF %isDefault%==y (

```

is problematic because `isDefault` isn't set when the outer `IF` statement is parsed, so it becomes:

```
IF ==y (

```

and hence you get the error about `(` being unexpected. You can get around this by enabling the command extension (`SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION`) for *delayed environment variable expansion* (see `set /?` for details). You also can rewrite your script:

```
@ECHO OFF
IF NOT "%1"=="" GOTO :EOF

:LOOP1
SET /P isDefault=Value Missing, do you want to use default values [1,1,10,Local Area Connection 2]?[y/n]
IF "%isDefault%"=="y" (
    SET from=1
    SET step=1
    SET to=10
    SET lan="Local Area Connection 2"
    GOTO :USERLOOP
)
IF "%isDefault%"=="n" GOTO :EOF
GOTO :LOOP1

```

(I made some other changes, such as using the built-in `:EOF` label instead of `:END`.)
I had a very similar problem and code construct that was causing me a lot of pain to resolve. My error message was **". was unexpected at this time"**...

It took me a couple long days to figure out another similar consideration due to this problem... Please take a look a the following problem and subsequent solution here: [". was unexpected at this time" generated from batch script line 'if exist [file] (...](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47280217/was-unexpected-at-this-time-generated-from-batch-script-line-if-exist-file/47280406#47280406)

The solution was simply the treatment of '(' and ')' on ECHO lines inside an IF statement block.

The point is, do consider treatment of special characters as a possible source of a problem when troubleshooting IF (and possibly FOR) statements.

HTH someone...