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Your script run fine on my computer too (i'm on XP)

Did you and your friend use a different OS? Vista/Win7 maybe? UAC on vista/win7 was known to have some issue on SendInput command ...

I cannot get keystrokes to send to a certain app on a friends computer. I've tried SendEvent, SendInput, SendPlay. I've tried a number of different keystroke combos.

This works on my machine wit ...

That works ok if you have a single instance of the script running. If you run multiple copies of the script the it will allow several copies of notepad to be in memory at once. Sometimes it will all ...

This doesn't work. Multiple copies still execute. I'd already tried WaitClose, didn't try the name modification. Thanks for the suggestion though. Seems like I need something like a mutex, a simul ...

I mentioned I tried to get Process to work. I think there is overhead to starting up a new program that causes this to not work.

file1 = %1%
file2 = %2%

keepGoing = 1;
while (keepGoin ...

Hi,

I'd like to create a script that does something like so:

ScriptToRunProgram contains
Wait until an instance of SomeProgram.exe is not running.
Run "SomeProgram.exe"

Called t ...

I found something with further searching. This looks like it.

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35893change+title+bar

I'd like to be able to change the title bar text of any window. I run multiple copies of certain applications, and I'd like to change the name on each instance.

I've searched around and haven't f ...

Figured it out. It always worked the second time.

Had to ad a line:

clipboard = ; clear clipboard

I added the case for for correctness.

I've noticed that it works sometimes.

If I contually press the hotkey several times, it will work. Usually though, for a single press, the clipboard wi ...

So when you Ctrl-V in a text editor after running the hotkey, it outputs the copied text for you with that change?

A few questions. I want to be copy path+filename text to the clipboard so I can paste it. But I'd like to do this only in an explorer shell.

Can anyone tell me why the first snippet doesn't work ...

I depend on Outlook reminders sometimes. But if I'm busy they can get hidden behind other windows or minimized, or I might ignore the flashing on the taskbar.

So I've written something that will n ...

erictheturtle,

Yes I think that example gives me a good enough understanding. Thank you.

I don't know if this is a good solution, but I might suggest that there be 2 threads. A "help wi ...

MyFavorites is very handy. I've been wanting to be able to copy/move files to folders based on a quickly selectable list for a while. So I made a small modification to MyFavorites.

Whatever files ...