windows-shell

Is there a command I can put into a Windows XP .bat file to bring the command shell to the front? From a batch file, no. If you want to activate a window you have to use SetActiveWindow() . If you don't want to get dirty with windows programming but still want to activate windows and simple stuff like that, I highly recommend checking out Autoit . You could always call this program from your batchfile to have it do the task. nircmd will do this, though it involves a little scripting. nircmd win activate "titleofwindow" You basically need to know the title of the cmd window you are executing

I have written a .vbs script which presently is run manually by users. How can I make this script schedule itself in Task Scheduler (to run at a fixed time each day automatically) on Windows XP and Windows 7 the first time it is executed manually? EDIT Option Explicit Dim oShell : Set oShell = WScript.CreateObject ("WScript.Shell") Dim FSO : set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Dim StartTime,Elapsed 'msgBox(oShell.CurrentDirectory) 'MsgBox(FSO.GetFile(Wscript.ScriptFullName).ParentFolder ) oShell.CurrentDirectory = FSO.GetFile(Wscript.ScriptFullName).ParentFolder StartTime =

I am using the following code to reference a shell dll Type t = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("Shell.Application"); Shell s = (Shell)Activator.CreateInstance(t); Console.WriteLine("success"); Console.ReadLine(); It works fine on my windows 7 development machine.But when I try running the exe on Win 2003 server I get this exception Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Shell3 2.Shell'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM compo nent for the interface with IID '{866738B9-6CF2-4DE8-8767-F794EBE74F4E}' failed due to the following error: No

When launching a script-type python file from Windows you get a windows shell type window where the script runs. How can the script determine and also set/control the Window Size, Screen Buffer Size and Window Position of said window?. I suspect this can be done with the pywin32 module but I can't find how. You can do this using the SetConsoleWindowInfo function from the win32 API. The following should work: from ctypes import windll, byref from ctypes.wintypes import SMALL_RECT STDOUT = -11 hdl = windll.kernel32.GetStdHandle(STDOUT) rect = wintypes.SMALL_RECT(0, 50, 50, 80) # (left, top,

How would I go about coding a new Windows Vista Shell? Everything you need to do as shell has never been documented, so there are some issues with file change notifications etc. The basics are: SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETMINIMIZEDMETRICS,...MINIMIZEDMETRICS) with (undocumented?) flag 8 Register as the shell (SetShellWindow,SetProgmanWindow,ShellDDEInit,RegisterShellHook etc) Hide welcome screen by setting a signal ("msgina: ShellReadyEvent" and "ShellDesktopSwitchEvent") Start registry run key, start menu\startup and ShellServiceObjects Set registry Explorer\SessionInfo The good thing is, you

I want an application which displays the some file properties of a mediafile if available, like (don't know the exact english words used in windows for it) FileName, Length/Duration, FileType(.avi .mp3 etc.) I tried taglib and windowsapishell but I dont get a working result (references are good) ShellFile so = ShellFile.FromFilePath(file); so.Properties.System.(everythingIwant) shows me a lot of file properties which I want to have displayed, but I cant get it working An example of an error: 'WindowsFormsApplication2.vshost.exe' (Managed (v4.0.30319)): Loaded 'C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\assembly