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#212011 - 2016-10-07 05:04 PM run start program not working
Robdutoit Robdutoit Hey THIS is FUN Registered: 2012-03-27 Posts: 363 Loc: London, England	I can do run 'notepad.exe' and that will start notepad up, but what I cannot do is run shell 'START "" /wait c:\windows\notepad.exe' as ultimately I want the program to run minimized so eventually the script should do shell 'START "" /min /wait c:\windows\notepad.exe' When I run this and I have tried every variation possible including comspec etc, it just doesn't do anything. it works fine if I type it in the command prompt, but will not run from kix script. Ultimately what I am trying to do is get Firefox to run on very first login so that it creates the profile in appdata folder so that I can change the default homepage settings. And then I want to close firefox after its loaded. I am probably doing something silly with the syntax as I don't often need to run an exe from script. Edited by Robdutoit (2016-10-07 05:05 PM) Edit Reason: Close firefox too
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#212012 - 2016-10-07 06:55 PM Re: run start program not working [Re: Robdutoit]
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4574 Loc: USA	start REQUIRES the cmd shell... Code: $InstallString='%comspec% /c start "OMFG" /wait "c:\windows\notepad.exe"' ? $InstallString shell $InstallString ? @serror ? $installstring _________________________ (... better days ahead)
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#212031 - 2016-10-18 02:39 PM Re: run start program not working [Re: Allen]
Robdutoit Robdutoit Hey THIS is FUN Registered: 2012-03-27 Posts: 363 Loc: London, England	Thanks, I nearly had it right. I think it was because I did not try using the comspec in the shell command. I tried it with the shell command, but could not get it to work. I removed the /wait command as what I was looking for was for the script to wait for the program to load, not wait for the program to close. But I got it working thanks Sorry to take so long to get back to you, but its been so many disruptions on this end, that I never got a chance to get back to you.
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