AutoHotkey Community

[beardboy]

Here are some dos utilities I use: Download by right-click / Save Target As... (93 KB)

Included in utilities.zip are:

addusers.exe
Can be used to Add, Update, or Delete Windows NT/2000/XP users on local computer or domain.

blat.exe
Can be used to send out emails via SMTP

elogdmp.exe
Windows NT/2000/XP Event Log Query Tool for local and remote PC's. Can export Event Logs to a text file for parsing.

reg.exe
Registry utility that lets you almost do anything to local and remote PC Registries.

rkill.exe & rkillsrv.exe
Remotely Kill processes by name, or PID.

sc.exe
Utility to Add, Update, Delete, Configure, Start, Stop, and Pause Windows Services.

srvany.exe
Utility to run any application as a service. This doesn't have a built in help, but if anyone is interested on how to use this let me know.

thanks,
beardboy

[Beastmaster]

If you use Blat (Thx beardboy ) here's his perfect partner

GetMail
Easily download mail to your harddrive from the command line!

[JonTheNiceGuy]

I've had a few problems running a script as a scheduled task in Windows 2k, (I'm guessing it's because it can't activate and de-activate the tasks) however, will this get around this problem?

Jon

[beardboy]

Are you going to want to the script running all the time? Or are you going to want it to run at certain times?

thanks,
beardboy

[JonTheNiceGuy]

Probably at a regular time each week.

[Chris]

AHK definitely isn't designed to be run as a service, or by any scheduler that runs things in the absence of a desktop. I'd be interested to know if anyone gets such a thing working or can explain how application windows can even exist when there is no desktop.

[JonTheNiceGuy]

I'd made the assumption (probably wrongly) that you can "force" a service to interact with the desktop?

[Chris]

Now that you mention it, I do seem to remember an option like that. If there are any server admins here, maybe they can confirm.

[beardboy]

You can setup services to interact with the desktop. I had an AHK application that I had run as a service, and everything was running fine. Except for a Clipper application that I ran from the AHK service sometimes had some problems.

If you want your application to only run at a regular time each week, you could have it always running and just write in your script to kick off and do stuff at the designated time.

Here are two simple lines to add any program as a service. AHKService is the name you choice for your service, make sure to change that on both lines if you change the name. Srvany.exe can be placed anywhere I just put it in the winnt\system32 folder. And your Program which I named as AHKProgram of course can have any name and be in any folder.

[Rajat]

an addition to ur list beardboy:

a small (25k) command line utility to view, kill, suspend/resume or set the priority and affinity of processes. (free)

http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/processutil/processutil.htm

btw there r some more nice utils for networks on this site.
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[Rajat]

i tried srvany. i made sure that both cmds gave success messages. i tried it with with a compiled ahk script... it just had this:

[Chris]

That's a little disappointing. Maybe there's something in the code that prevents AutoHotkey from launching if it doesn't have access to the desktop or the Explorer shell. Has anyone ever gotten a script, compiled or otherwise, to launch as a service and do something useful?

[Atomhrt]

[Rajat]

thanx. i'll check it out.
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[beardboy]

Sorry I never posted a tutorial on how to get this setup correctly.

First I copy srvany.exe into the system32 folder.
Then using sc.exe I would create a new service. You have to point the name of the exe for the service to srvany.exe