Setting an application to autorun on startup?

Cantdance_2

Awesome - thanks guys!!!

Last question (promise!), can I ensure that the processes I add to the startup menu run in a certain order?

albertross_2

you could add the all to the vbs script in order with a loop similar to the code I posted, waiting for them to start in turn.

Chippy_Minton

Or put them in a DOS batch file, e.g. start.bat:

"C:\Program Files\FileZilla\FileZilla.exe"
start iexplore
notepad

Look at the program shortcut to see the full file path. As shown above, some programs need 'start', others just the name. Type the command from a command prompt to see which one works.

Cantdance_2

Hi again everyone... okay I've been playing with the VBS script but I can't seem to get it to work for some reason - it fails on line two character one saying the system cannot find the file specified.

Any ideas? Here's my script:

Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
objShell.Run "C:\Program Files\FileZilla\FileZilla.exe"
Wscript.Sleep 5000
objShell.AppActivate "Filezilla"
objShell.SendKeys "%tfr%qu%p"

espresso

Cantdance wrote:

Hi again everyone... okay I've been playing with the BBS script but I can't seem to get it to work for some reason - it fails on line two character one saying the system cannot find the file specified.

Any ideas? Here's my script:

Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
objShell.Run "C:\Program Files\FileZilla\FileZilla.exe"
Wscript.Sleep 5000
objShell.AppActivate "Filezilla"
objShell.SendKeys "%tfr%qu%p"

So edit your script so that the path to the filezilla program is correct.

HTH

Cantdance_2

Thanks for that but the problem is, it is correct, as far as I can make out anyway!

I guess it isn't or it would work...

Hmm! Does it make a difference where I save and run the script from?

James

Chippy_Minton

Cantdance wrote:

objShell.Run "C:\Program Files\FileZilla\FileZilla.exe"

Put 3 pairs of double quotes (!) round it, like this:

objShell.Run """C:\Program Files\FileZilla\FileZilla.exe"""

It doesn't matter where you put the script or where you run it from because you've specified an absolute path above.

Cantdance_2

Great, thank you!!

Now it opens Filezilla but regardless of the length of time I enter in the 'Sleep' command, no keystrokes get sent to Filezilla or anywhere else for that matter.

Do I need to install anything to get the SendKeys command to work?

Cantdance_2

Is this what I need?

http://www.rutherfurd.net/python/sendkeys/

albertross_2

does this work?

objShell.SendKeys "%tfr%qu%qp"

this should process the queue and open help, no topics found , if sendkeys is working

Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
objShell.Run """C:\Program Files\FileZilla\FileZilla.exe"""
objShell.AppActivate "Filezilla"
Wscript.Sleep 5000
objShell.SendKeys "%tfr%qu%qp"
Wscript.Sleep 1000
objShell.SendKeys "%hc%n%Snaminau 666 gmdvd01%L"