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jaco0646,

I share your concern about wuauclt.exe not being generic enough (and also wmiprvse.exe). Also, they require a very long wait, indeed, which I am questioning as necessary. So I have sett ...

Thrillski,

I am intrigued by your suggestion of monitoring Start Right. I use a somewhat similar program called StartUp Cop Pro, from the PC Magazine Utilities. But, unlike Start Right, StartUp C ...

Thrillski, SKAN, and jaco0646,

Thank you all for your very helpful suggestions. They prompted me to explore the boot process further, as least as it applies to Windows XP, Service Pack 3, running ...

In Windows XP (Service Pack 3), what is the best way for AHK to detect when a computer has finished booting?

Ideas to Date

Use the Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del, and then the Processes tab) to find ...

Thank you, engunneer. I will explore that concatenate operator.

Ron1

If you would like to follow the continuing discussion of the player.playState function of the Windows Media Player 11, please jump to this new thread:

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php? ...

Sean,

Thank you alerting me to the update needed for the COM Standard Library. That worked. I am most grateful for your help.

Two questions:

(1) Why is there a period (.) after the "+& ...

Sean,

Thank you again for the effort to help. I am most grateful.

I modified my code, as you suggested, as shown below. But, unfortunately, I got the same result. That is, playState = 0 alway ...

Using, as a model, Lexikos excellent script on playing a specific track on a CD-ROM in Windows Media Player 11, I am making a second effort to retrieve the play state of WMP 11 for another purpose, b ...

Tic and SKAN,

Thank you so much for your very helplful suggestions. I am learning much by studying them. The depth of AHK continues to amaze me as a relative beginner. And the knowledge, and hel ...

You asked about streaming without a music player, so this response does not address that particular question.

But I wanted to be sure that you knew that the Windows Media Player 11, which is avail ...

QUESTION: Can AHK (GUI) create a window with a wide border of controllable width and controllable color, and also transparent inside this special border?

I realize that AHK (GUI) can create a wind ...

Guest,

Thank you for your message. Very kind of you to help.

I should have indicated in my previous message that I began with the COM approach, without success, and then tried the DllCall() app ...

I checked out the player.playState reference that Guest provided, which suggests to me that an AHK DllCall() should work. But I have been unsuccessful so far with the following approach. I show the ...

Jaco0646 and Guest,

Thank you for your posts. I am most grateful.

The COM approach suggested by Guest sounds most promising. I shall check the powerful COM script kindly provided by Lexikos ea ...