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Hi,

my AutoHotkey.ini contains lots of hotstrings and tiny scripts, but only recently I noticed that some aren't working correctly when I move them more to the bottom of AutoHotkey.ini - what could be the cause?

Did I miss something in these two scripts?

This script should open an URL in IE once a day but only does so now when moved to the top of AutoHotkey.ini:





Actually, when I just moved these scripts around in AutoHotkey.ini I was only able to confirm problems with the first of these two scripts - two days ago I wasn't able to get the second to close the Ghoster process when the script was further down AutoHotkey.ini - very strange....

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The top of the Scripts page describes the auto-execute section. I think it explains the behavior you're seeing.

Hmm... I read that and tried to understand. I added #Persistent to the scripts in AutoHotkey.ini since that was the only conclusion that I came up with, but it's still not working

Isn't it possible to have more than x scripts in AutoHotkey.ini?

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Try this in your ini file, it will allow multiple auto-exec sections to be executed. So the included scripts should work.

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Aaaaah, now I get it!

Thanks a lot, AutoHotkey is fun again! Maybe this example should be added to "The Auto-execute Section" on http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Scripts.htm ?

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I guess I was too happy too soon... after restarting Windows, this tiny script works only partly AGAIN!

It does start Ghoster.exe but doesn't close it anymore when that hotkey is used again... Any ideas?

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maybe you have to use DetectHiddenWindows. Just a guess

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to test it, why don't you make it send a msgBox, and confirm what is not working if its the script's content or the synatax.

but hey i like the gosub solution, solved some of my problems as well ^_^

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Damn, I just CAN'T get this to work again! Neither DetectHiddenWindows nor various other things I tried were helping...

I confirmed with "MsgBox, test" that the script itself IS working, it just won't close the process!

I then tried to use Ghoster.exe (that's its name in the Task Manager) there instead of just Ghoster, together with the "process" command instead of WinClose, but that didn't work either

I then tried to use the full path for the Ghoster.exe and the "process" command - same result

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I then cursed a bit more and tried this:


fdm.exe is another running exe but - again - the process command won't work!

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A few more minutes passed while I tried several things - and suddently BOTH triggers were working correctly?!? Any explanation? Anyone?

What follows is the working version of the script, I really hope it will continue to work - but why isn't it removing Ghoster's tray icon when it closes the process?

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Some apps don't respond properly to WinClose. You might try sending an Alt-F4 keystroke to the window instead; that is, Send !{F4}. If that doesn't work, you might try WinMenuSelectItem to exit the application (if its window has a standard menu bar).

I'm using "Process, Close, Ghoster.exe" now but that isn't removing the tray icon. I tried it with "Send !{F4}" but was not really sure how to really send it to the process in question - result: didn't work.

Maybe the problem is that Ghoster.exe creates no own window but only its icon sits in the tray?

Since you're using "Process Close", that will abruptly terminate the specified process as described in the documentation. Terminated processes do not have a chance to save documents, remove tray icons, or do other cleanup activities.

It sounds like you've already tried DetectHiddenWindows+WinClose and other tricks, so I'm not sure what else to suggest other than Rajat's SendMessage Tutorial (which might also help determine whether the process owns any windows).