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[sb8469]

Beginning this weekend, one of my scripts stopped working. I know that i had some hotfixes pushed to my PC from work...but not sure if this is the cause.

Here is the segment of the script...

^!t:: ; Use Ctrl+Alt+T to Exexute in Debug Mode

RegRead, Select, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, SOFTWARE\Blue Skies, SelectedKey
RegRead, PopUpMessage, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, SOFTWARE\Blue Skies, PopUpDialog
if (Select = 6)
{
Process, Exist, ngmonitor.exe
NewPID = %ErrorLevel%
MsgBox, PID %NewPID%
if (NewPID = 0 )
{
RegRead, Pathway, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, SOFTWARE\Blue Skies, Path2File
MsgBox, Ready to Run Path %Pathway%
Run %Pathway%


The PATHWAY key is set to:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Navigator Passport\WHQ Connection

This is pointing to a link. I have tried putting it in "*" and adding .lnk to the end of the path....still the same error.

Error is:Failed attempt to launch program or document.

[engunneer]

you might need to add the second parameter to run?

It's odd you say this because two scripts I wrote for my wife over two years ago suddenly stopped working. Tell me, did you get Service Pack 3 for XP? I suspect there is some permission change in windows that is messing this up.
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[sb8469]

[sb8469]

Uninstalled the hotfix and I am still having the issue....not sure why it worked for years...but it is frustrating. I need to fix this and push the new program out to over a thousand users.

[engunneer]

did my suggestion of adding the working directory parameter help?
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[sb8469]

It did not work. This is actually launching a VPN connection, and that makes this a little bit of an odd Run command.

[engunneer]

can you read the command parameters from the shortcut and run them directly? (manually or scripted)
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[sb8469]

I have run the shortcut manually and it works fine. It is just that AHK does not seem to be able to run a shortcut.

[sinkfaze]

Does changing it to this help?

[engunneer]

I know running the shortcut manually works, but if you open it and get the command line information from it, then open a command prompt and run the command, does it work?

the instead of reading the info out of a file, try making a hardcoded AHK file that only runs this program using the command information inside the shortcut instead of running the shortcut itself.
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[sb8469]

I got it to work.

The line was changed to: Run ""%Pathway%""