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Hi,

I'm using AutoHotkey to start Locate (http://www.locate32.net/) with the Win+f key combination, and (annonyingly) often Locate wouldn't start another instance but only bring an instance that's already running to the foreground. And when that happens I can try as often as I want, Locate would NOT start another instance. I'm using this code:



The Locate author suggested that AutoHotkey is the problem since he can't reproduce this behavior without AutoHotkey - and this seems to be correct, when I just hit Win+r (to open Windows' execute box) and type

there, it works just fine!

So... do I have to change the AHK code to make this work correctly?

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use fullpath

I get an error when I try that:


Edit:
I then tried

but that isn't solving the problem either.

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Why not just use:




if that doesn't work, try putting quotes around it:
"C:\Program Files\Locate\Locate32.exe"
then:
"C:\Program Files\Locate\Locate32.exe -i"

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The extra check is to make sure the hotkey wouldn't work on another system where Locate is not installed.

I changed it to:

and while it *seemed* to work at first, it still isn't *always* causing the expected results (like using Windows' command line). Strange...

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I tried to make it work with %comspec% but that also failed...

Anyone got more ideas how I could make this work? Or *is* this a bug?

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try adding workingdir

Thanks for the suggestion.

Sadly, that also doesn't work. It still mostly just activates the Locate instance that has been launched most recently.

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Change locate as, tools|options|keyboard shortcuts:
Change or remove the shortcut for Win+f|Global (hook)|Open dialog.

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah... who would have thought of THAT... (I obviously didn't)

Thanks a lot!

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