Problems with Caffeine.

I made the following batch file. It seems to only process the first line. Also, Ctrl-C doesn't seem to work.
Can anyone help?
Thank you.

C:\Users\John\Downloads\caffeine.exe -useshift -showdlg
Pause
xcopy C:\Users\John\Temp\Test2.txt Test2x.txt
Pause
C:\Users\John\Downloads\caffeine.exe -appexit -showdlg
Pause

Does your batch file opens a commandline window? The caffeine popup will take away the focus.If i remember well the commandline window must be active window to get the "any key" press to exit the Pause.

I am not so familiar with batch commands but do you not need  " Start " to run an exe ?

Start C:\Users\John\Downloads\caffeine.exe -useshift -showdlg