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Closing explorer, Waiting, then Reopening it

Started by Dranklin Brosevelt , Oct 11 2010 05:59 PM

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#1 Dranklin Brosevelt

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Posted 11 October 2010 - 05:59 PM

I've been trying to write a script but I think I'm doing something wrong. I have an old game called X-Wing that needs explorer to be closed before it runs. I want explorer to close, then open up again after I'm done playing. Here's what I have right now:

Process, Close, explorer.exe
Run, C:\Program Files\LucasArts\XWING95\XWING95.exe
WinWait, X-Wing Win95
WinWaitClose
Run, explorer.exe

When I run this, it closes explorer and opens the game like it should. But then the game immediately closes and explorer starts again. Can anyone help me figure this out?

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#2 TLM

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Posted 11 October 2010 - 07:21 PM

Just a guess..

Process, Close, explorer.exe
Run[color=red]Wait[/color], C:\Program Files\LucasArts\XWING95\XWING95.exe
; WinWait, X-Wing Win95
; WinWaitClose
Run, explorer.exe

Then again,
the system will probably automatically restart explorer if its closed.
The only thing I can think off is to tempoaraily rename explorer.exe
to say explorer_.exe.
Then when X-Wing has closed change the name back to the explorer.exe
and run it again.

The downside to this is renaming explorer.exe is very dangerous
and can cause your system to fail.
I dont suggest doing this!

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#3 dave_100

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Posted 11 October 2010 - 07:36 PM

Hi
I have exactly the same problem and also the answer for you
its using a script called wintrigger, and it auto closes explorer when the game starts, and when the game is finished, starts a new instance automatically,

all you should have to amend below is the games window name

Wintrigger by Masterfocus:
http://www.autohotke...asterFocus/AHK/
http://www.autohotke... ... rigger.ahk

#Persistent

; ------ ------ CONFIGURATION SECTION ------ ------



ProgWinTitle1 = Age of Empires II Expansion ahk_class Age of Empires II  Expansion ;amend this using windows spy for your game
WinTrigger1 = Active


; SetTimer Period
CheckPeriod = 200

; ------ END OF CONFIGURATION SECTION ------ ------

SetTimer, LabelCheckTrigger, %CheckPeriod%
Return

; ------ ------ ------

LabelCheckTrigger:
  While ( ProgWinTitle%A_Index% != "" && WinTrigger := WinTrigger%A_Index% )
    if ( !ProgRunning%A_Index% != !Win%WinTrigger%( ProgWinTitle := ProgWinTitle%A_Index% ) )
      GoSubSafe( "LabelTriggerO" ( (ProgRunning%A_Index% := !ProgRunning%A_Index%) ? "n" : "ff" ) A_Index )
Return

; ------ ------ ------

GoSubSafe(mySub)
{
  if IsLabel(mySub)
    GoSub %mySub%
}

; ------ ------ CUSTOM LABEL SECTION ------ ------

LabelTriggerOn1:
run TASKKILL /F /IM explorer.exe,, hide
LabelTriggerOff1:
run explorer.exe
return

; ------ END OF CUSTOM LABEL SECTION ------ ------

#ifwinactive