Running Sticky Notes using ShellExecute

[Chantaro]

Hello everyone

I am having trouble trying to run the Sticky Notes program in windows. When I use:

ShellExecute("C:\Windows\System32\StikyNot.exe")

I keep getting an Error that it cannot be located even though it is definitely right there in that spot.

The ScriptDir is located in @UserProfileDir & "\Downloads" if that matters.

Anyone got any Ideas?

Kind Regards

Chantaro

[AlessandroAvolio]

Put this code at the top of your program, otherwise copy stikynot.exe to C : \ Windows \ SysWOW64

 

#Region ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
#AutoIt3Wrapper_UseX64=y
#EndRegion ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****

 

[AlessandroAvolio]

Plus run ShellExecute("stikynot.exe") instead 

[Chantaro]

Sadly I cannot move the exe for my use case and adding the x64 wrapper didn't do the trick

[AlessandroAvolio]

You have to use the command:

#Region ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
#AutoIt3Wrapper_UseX64=y
#EndRegion ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****

ShellExecute("stikynot.exe")

 

 

[Chantaro]

I did yes

stikynot could not be found. Make sure you've entered the name correctly and retry

Edited September 29, 2021 by Chantaro

[AlessandroAvolio]

I notice that you have Windows 10. Since you said you were certain that the Sticky Note executable file was present in the System32 folder I assumed that your computer was running Windows 7 as the operating system.

Following an old update, the old Sticky Notes is no longer available on Windows 10. In its place, Microsoft has put an application that can be downloaded from its store.

With Windows 7 you can encounter this error if the application that should open Sticky Notes is 32-bit.

Are you sure that stikynot.exe is present in 😄 \ System32?

[Chantaro]

Hah😃, actually I am using Windows 8.1 on this machine. And yes unless I am blind it's here:

[AlessandroAvolio]

I notice that the compiler directive is not highlighted in red. Do you get AutoIt3Wrapper GUI if you press CTRL + F7 From SciTE?

[Jos]

Pretty sure the OP is missing the separate full SciTE4AutoIt3 version. @Chantaro, just install the full version and then the #Autoit3Wrapper directives will work.

Jos

[Chantaro]

Thank you @AlessandroAvolio and @Jos!

That did the trick