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We have an application that self-updates using a Laucher.exe process which copies down new App.exe and DLLs from a server then runs them in a separate process. This was all working very well until the arrival of the Windows 7 taskbar... Problem is in Windows 7, if the user pins the Launcher.exe to the task bar (by right-clicking the shortcut to Launcher.exe) then this happens... When you start the program the "pinned" taskbar icon momentarily gets focus while the launcher is running but then a totally separate new icon appears when App.exe is running. If the user then decides to right click

I know there are similar topics to this on StackOverflow, but none of them have the same issue as me. Most of the questions are asking how to start a service from Python. I have a .bat file that is creating a service, and using a PythonFile.exe that I created using py2exe. I am getting the error "Error starting service. The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion". The service does not run, but I see the executable in the ProcessManager processes. Are there specific requirements for executables to be eligible as a service? My executable is just a TCP server

I want to make a script that detects when taskbar icon flashes, and activates a program. I would like to use AutoIt or the Windows API. How to detect when a program's taskbar icon starts flashing? Mike Kwan To answer your question directly, there is no easy (documented and reliable) way to detect the flashing of the window . It occurs as a result of FlashWindow / FlashWindowEx . A very intrusive and heavy-handed option is to perform global hooking of both APIs. You could do this by injecting a DLL to every usermode application and performing a local hook/detour which notifies some central

Sometimes I can't delete a folder, because it contains thumbs.db. I have a lot of folders (which contain images too) and I will need to move them in a different place and delete the original folder. But I am getting this error: the folder can't be deleted because "thumbs.db" is being used by another process. Moving and deleting is made in c#, and right now it skips deleting the folders that have thumbs.db, which will result in a lot of empty folders. Is there a way to delete the folder even if it has that file? am submitting my comment as an answer because it is much more readable this way:

My work computer usually restarts once a week over night. This is done for security purposes. I don't know in advance when this could happen. Sometimes it may take even a month until the next restart. My problem is that I have scripts running on my computer, so I would like to get a notification whenever my computer is about to restart. (I need to know when it restarts because I must log in back to my computer, otherwise the scripts won't run. Anyway . . . ) I'm trying to set Windows Task Scheduler rule to send me an email whenever my computer is about to restart . However, it looks like the