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Hi guys!

I often use the run dialog to launch stuff, much rather than navigating through a more or less long list of entries in the start menu.

I had the Win+R key (launched through an AHK script) on a seperate key on my keyboard and on a mouse button, cause it's just more convenient and faster that way.

It happened that the Run dialog wouldn't display when I was in VMware or when I was using the Remote Desktop feature. The Run dialog instead then displayed in the VMware guest OS or on the remote computer I was on.

So I decided to put a little script together which replaces the Run dialog. Check it out:



I use the run.ini to store the last entry I made in the InputBox, just like the Windows-Run dialog would do. I haven't implemented a history yet though.

The run.ini file looks like this:



Comments or suggestions are welcome.

~modah

I also use Run a lot. Because Run isn't a program or a process (maybe something built-into Windows itself) it can't be launched with a hotkey normally. However, if you drag the Run icon from the start menu to your desktop, you can right-click>properties it to add a Windows hotkey (or make an ahk hotkey).

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nice idea. i checked it out. in vmware it has no effect at all, the hotkey is just ignored. when in remote desktop the hotkey works, but the run dialog immediately looses focus after it opens. so that's of no use for me.