New to AutoIt

[ResNullius]

Not to doubt you ResNullius, but it doesn't seem to be working for me. Thanks for your help man, any idea why its not letting me do this? Does having autoit follow a link cause issues?

Did you cut and paste my code to try?

If so and it's still not working, then can you browse to

c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Games

and do you see a "GameExplorer.lnk" there?

If so, double click on it and see if it opens the Game Explorer. If it does, then that means the AutoIt code as provided should work. If the "GameExplorer.lnk" isn't there, then do a serach for it and find out where it's hiding. Otherwise, it must have been deleted...

[HawkShark]

I did indeed just C&P your code and after browsing to the given directory the shortcut is there. Nonetheless the autoit code doesn't launch it. But, when i remove the final file target it opens the

c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Games

directory just fine.

Would it matter that all the shortcuts in the directory have actual targets IE:

"%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Games\Purble Place\PurblePlace.exe"

except the Games Explorer? The Games explorer's target is just called 'Games'.

Also could it matter that I don't see the .lnk extension to the shortcut files, even though i have display known extension on in the folder options?

[ResNullius]

I did indeed just C&P your code and after browsing to the given directory the shortcut is there. Nonetheless the autoit code doesn't launch it. But, when i remove the final file target it opens the

c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Games

directory just fine.

Would it matter that all the shortcuts in the directory have actual targets IE:

"%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Games\Purble Place\PurblePlace.exe"

except the Games Explorer? The Games explorer's target is just called 'Games'.

Also could it matter that I don't see the .lnk extension to the shortcut files, even though i have display known extension on in the folder options?

OH OH... my bad, I should have cut and pasted instead of retyping into my post.

I had an "s" in the "GamesExplorer.lnk", should be just "GameExplorer.lnk with no "s"... sorry

ShellExecute(@StartMenuCommonDir & "\Programs\Games\GameExplorer.lnk")

[GEOSoft]

Just out of curiosity, where does GameExplorer.lnk point to?

[HawkShark]

Like i said, its integrated into the explorer shell. But the lnk itself claims to target Games .. nothing else. there is no Start in:, the Target Location: is Desktop, even target type is: Games...

BTW Resnullius, You're a god

i would have never guessed to make it singular, what a bizarre thing...

Well thanks! Now i can make my autohotkey that launches on startup and opens GE when i hit the worthless MD button YAY

Edited October 23, 2007 by HawkShark

[ResNullius]

Just out of curiosity, where does GameExplorer.lnk point to?

It's one of those "namespace" special folder things, like "Control Panel"...

There's some info on msdn, this is about using WMI with it: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb173451.aspx

[HawkShark]

Haha Ironically enough AutoHotkey doesn't have the shellexecute command, any ideas for how to either make a background process that will trigger the command when a button is pushed or, what the autohotkey equiv to shellexecute is?

Damnit i was retarded and figured they used the same programming language...

EDIT: Nevermind, thanks for the help... I solved it :-P

Edited October 23, 2007 by HawkShark

[ResNullius]

Haha Ironically enough AutoHotkey doesn't have the shellexecute command, any ideas for how to either make a background process that will trigger the command when a button is pushed or, what the autohotkey equiv to shellexecute is?

Damnit i was retarded and figured they used the same programming language...

WHAT??? Did you say the "AutoH" word??? Don't THEY have a forum???

Seriously though, I don't know their syntax, but you could use a Run command instead

Run(@COMSPEC & ' /c START  "" "'&  @StartMenuCommonDir & '\Programs\Games\GameExplorer.lnk"',"", @SW_HIDE)

Edited October 23, 2007 by ResNullius

[GEOSoft]

It's one of those "namespace" special folder things, like "Control Panel"...

There's some info on msdn, this is about using WMI with it: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb173451.aspx

Based on your link someone with Vista might want to try

ShellExecute("::{F382DA49-9148-4a22-AF78-C378DFC32D02}")

Edit: There is probably a registry entry under spacial folders that will return the path as well.

Edited October 23, 2007 by GEOSoft

[HawkShark]

LoL, yea their forums are somewhat dead... I didn't realize there was a healthy disdain for them here. For some reason i was under the impression they were for the most part the same. Working on the same lang, etc.