dietpepsi Posted July 16, 2010 Share Posted July 16, 2010 (edited) I want to run an automated wipe of my free space using the program Eraser. The problem I believe is WinWaitActive in the script. #RequireAdmin Run("C:\Program Files\Eraser\Eraser.exe") WinWaitActive("User Account Control") Send("!y") It will not get to alt + y in order to accept the dialog box that comes up with UAC. It's the same problem that exists with the notepad example on this website and also in a PDF tutorial I downloaded. It's very frustrating to use WinWaitActive as it seems to have a lot of problems, is there a better way of accomplishing this ? Edited July 16, 2010 by dietpepsi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Melba23 Posted July 16, 2010 Moderators Share Posted July 16, 2010 dietpepsi,You cannot use AutoIt to interact with the UAC window - and I for one am very glad that that is the case. A moment's thought will tell you why! It's very frustrating to use WinWaitActive as it seems to have a lot of problemsWinWaitActive does not have problems. We explained yesterday that the problem in the Notepad tutorial was nothing to do with WinWaitActive, just that MS changed the Notepad Save window title in the OSs produced since the tutorial was written. Perhaps the PDF tutorial has the similar problem. Try not to be so negative - AutoIt works for most of us most of the time! M23 Any of my own code posted anywhere on the forum is available for use by others without any restriction of any kind Open spoiler to see my UDFs: Spoiler ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columnsChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listingDate_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language usedExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBoxGUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUIGUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable framesGUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView itemsGUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeViewMarquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIsNoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxesNotify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the displayScrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single commandStringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit textToast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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