Thank You,

I am just learning to develop in SalesLogix and finiding examples on how todo things is like pulling your own teeth. I have plenty of experince with VB6 and ASP, and i am still trying to wrap my head around slxVB.

thanks again

Adam

This was clear and simple, thanks.

Question: does the executed program run "in line" so the statement after Run "C:\Program Files\MyFile.exe" waits until MyFile.exe is done?

Or does MyFile.exe run asynchronously, sort of like a forked process?

Thanks again.
Tim

Hi Ryan,

Thank you for posting your very useful utility script. It helped me enormously. I used your code to execute media player sound files; such as .wav sound files. My question is how can I have the media player software appear on the screen while the sound file is running based on the Windows Folder Option File Type? For instance, a .wav file would be associated with Windows Media Player.

Thank you very much,
Denise Goodheart

Hi i would appreciate if you could let me know if i can get the screen shot instead of the message on prompt for the following code..

' Declare variables
Dim WSHShell,strRegKey
' Create the Wscript Shell object, which contains the Registry methods
Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strRegKey="HKLM\Software\XYZ\Installed\APPNAME\MSI Release Version"
WScript.Echo "Current MSI Version is: " & WSHShell.RegRead(strRegKey)
Wscript.quit(0)

appreciate your help in advance

Can you run the application async and pass data back into SLX?

I can't use space with the run command
exemple: gpupdate /force

how can i make this work?

That is actually very neat - for some weird reason I always felt the neat to do something like shell.run "cmd /c " & file... good to know that I can make it a bit shorter

Very nice utility script in VBScript that I ever saw. Thanks very much for sharing this short script with us.

Thank You for sharing your Scripts....

One question: could you give a example of a vbscript that checks if the program is already opened, so it doesn't open it again?

And thanks for the script. Nice and simple.

Thanks for sharing this script. I'm trying to use this script to run some registry keys to be registered under the windows registry. Is there a way to run these registry keys using this script with out any user interaction? Thanks in advance.

Thanks for sharing this script. I'm trying to use this script to run some registry keys to be registered under the windows registry. Is there a way to run these registry keys using this script without any user interaction? Thanks in advance.

How can I run the script remotley, ie from IIS5 so that I can run a program via a webpage?

Thanks.

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Nice 'n simple script. Thanks Chris Farley! ;)

thnx, it helped =)

short script  but good.. thanks

WOW! it worked straight up! although i got kinda freaked out when my nortan internet sequrity came up! i thought the stuff was a scam and virus, but i took the risk and it worked! TY! and as a bonus i didnt have to do anything, nothing incorrect!

WOW! it worked straight up! although i got kinda freaked out when my nortan internet sequrity came up! i thought the stuff was a scam and virus, but i took the risk and it worked! TY! and as a bonus i didnt have to do anything, nothing incorrect!

WOW! it worked straight up! although i got kinda freaked out when my nortan internet sequrity came up! i thought the stuff was a scam and virus, but i took the risk and it worked! TY! and as a bonus i didnt have to do anything, nothing incorrect!

Great Script!

To add attributes you can modify it like this instead:

Sub Run(ByVal sFile,sAttr)

Dim shell

   Set shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

   shell.Run Chr(34) & sFile & Chr(34) & sAttr, 1, false

   Set shell = Nothing

End Sub

Run "cmd.exe", "/K query farm > farms.txt"

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Nice Comand Ryan

Now Im try to install a program into the script how I make the instalation with out the next bottons,

I want the script install all the program for me automatically

could yo helpme with this ?

Thanks a lot! this was the only straight forward script i could find. helped a lot=)

Thank you

Frostfire, great addition to this script.

I was using the Run command as shown above in my login scripts, but had to write customized lines for commands with attributes.

This does it all. My login scripts thank you.

-Doc

I am trying to call an .HTA file to display a popup (motd) from my network logon script.  This seems to be opening the hta... but then it imediatly closes.

any ideas?

I have run an exe.

Can you please tell me how do I capture the output of this exe being run?

How do you check if an application is running?  Is this possible in vbscript?

Great yaar.... Its working.... Thanks Ryan....

Heya,

I have the following codeing in a .vbs file.

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

WshShell.Run chr(34) & "C:\Test.exe" & Chr(34), 0

Set WshShell = Nothing

Running this code excutes the test.exe hiding the promopt but without 3 paramters the exe fails. Normally this could be passed by a .bat or shortcut such as

Shortcut "C:\Test.exe" 10 1024 1024

Bat Start C:\Test.exe 10 1024 1024.

Could anyone tell me how i could put these 3 numbers into the vbs coding so my .exe will work.

Thank you!

is there anyway you can dictate the program used to open a file? Say I want to open song.mp3 with Audacity.exe despite Audacity not being the default application.

Hi, I've a problem with the focus of a MsgBox after use this code.

Dim sYourCommand

Dim objShell

Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject ("WSCript.shell")

'objShell.Run  "cmd /c " & s,1,True

sYourCommand =  "notepad.exe"

objShell.Run sYourCommand,10,True  

MsgBox " Focus ?", vbYesNo+vbQuestion+vbDefaultButton2

can you help me?

Hi Ryan, thanks for the tutorial. Is it possible to run/execute a program to computer client also through the network..?

Thanks again,

Mei.

Hi Ryan,

How to call VBS file from ASP page server side codes? I can't get it working.

Thank you!

How can I be able to SendKeys from here?

The program open, but I get and error when sending "~" key

Sub Run(ByVal sFile)

Dim shell

   Set shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

   shell.Run Chr(34) & sFile & Chr(34), 1, false

   Set shell = Nothing

End Sub

Run "C:\Program Files\McKesson\STAR Navigator 15.16\HBOC32\MckBoot2.exe"

wscript.sleep (700)

wscript.sendkeys "~"

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Hi Ryan,

I am trying to open my custom application through a code like this.....

Dim oWSH

Set oWSH= CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

Dim i

Dim objProc

Set objProc = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2").ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Process where Name='MyApp.exe'")

i = 0

cpuser = user

For Each Proc in objProc

   Return = Proc.GetOwner(user)

If Return <> 0 Then

i = i    

    Else

i = i+1

    End If

Next

Now my environment in Visual Studio .NET 2001 and VB Script. I am using Windows 7 as operating System and IE 8 as the browser. Now the above code I am using to check if the application is already running by that user. In IE 7 and Windows XP below the code is running fine and I am getting the desired result that is in the "Result" variable I am getting value 0 if the application is not running. But in IE 8 and Windows 7 if the process is not running then it is returning 1 which creates the issue. I am assuming the problem area is the below line....

Set objProc = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2").ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Process where Name='MyApp.exe'")

Now it would be highly appreciated if I get some help on this. I have to build the code in a generic way so that the application will run on IE 8 or below and Any Windows version.

Thanks

Arindam

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does't work

Whooooooo hoooooo....

scriptkidders love this site

WOW, Thanks SOOOOOOO Much. I have been trying to do this forever and finally I can do it!!!

how to use schedules / time to ShellExecute..?

can anybody tell me , how to use checkj enter key in vb script,

that any body press enter key in vb script

please suggests..

I have one question , how to check enter key in vbscript .

when we have press enter key in vbscript ,

please any body suggests..

Hi, Nice Blog

I was wondering if there a good website, e-book or online cource that could help me to learn Vbscript "not the vbscript in the html codes"

thanks

How I can Create a Application object of Audacity software in vb script for automation

please tell me i wait...............

That's it!!!

This doesn't work in Windows 7 when attempting to run subprograms as administrator, and ShellExecute doesn't wait for a program to complete before the script continues on its merry way.  (Leave it to Micros**t to screw things up for the world.)

Sir, How to open AutoCAD (Installed in "C:\Program Files\AutoCAD 2008\acad.exe") through VBA in MS Excel Macro.  Thanking you in advance

Vinod, are you asking how to open autocad.exe installed in the path you have described, using VBscript?

If so, use this:

Set obj1 = Wscript.CreateObject("wscript.shell")

Obj1.Run("""C:\Program Files\AutoCAD 2008\acad.exe""")

Make sure you use three starting and ending double quotes for the path as I have written.