How to make SHIFT work with %* in batch files

Question

In my batch file on Windows XP, I want to use %* to expand to all parameters except the first.
Test file (foo.bat):

Answer 1

Resume of all and fix all problems:

set Args=%1
:Parse
shift
set First=%1
if not defined First goto :EndParse
  set Args=%Args% %First%
  goto :Parse
:EndParse

Unsupport spaces between arguments: 1 2 3 4 will be 1 2 3 4