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One thing I use them for regularly is copying directory trees at school. Many instructors put material on the college server, and it's a pain in the ass to point-and-click navigate to the right folder, and copy it over in the GUI. It's much easier to have a batch file on my USB drive, and double-click it.
Another thing it's useful for, particularly if you have a mobile computer that connects to different networks based on location, is mapping network drives. It's much easier to double-click the batch file/shortcut thereto than it is to type some lengthy NET USE command, or navigate the many clicks and keystrokes needed to map the drive in Explorer (I am assuming the share requires a password). Yes, sometimes you can set it up to automagically connect, but occassionally, this isn't appropriate (such as when you don't want to always be connected).
Lastly, they're useful for utilities that use a command-line interface. You can write a batch file to repetitively call the utility for each instance of the task (say, each file you want to process), without having to tediously type everything out.
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