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Bat file task popup, powerscript or autoHK?
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They changed something in windows a couple years ago, now my batch based tasks are all screwed up. I use taskill, wait/pause
and exit command lines. So of course it creates a cmd window that never goes away now.
What I need is a more in depth or option rich task utility, I'm a dumb ass(dyslexic) I can not do command line and scripts worth a damn but can fart around in a Gui window long enough to get crap done and not destroy the PC or universe..
So since I can not use bath files anymore, least for not for dism/sfc, what I need is to have the task system itself do what I need the bat to do, mainly to turn on a program on as close to start up as it can, then kill and restart the program every hour.
Yes the programs I use are buggy and either lock up or give out a ton of error windows(link bar spits out gdi errors when resolution changes or some back from the screens being off). SuperF4 will lock up now and then, I'm already angry enough when I am forced to use superf4 to kill a program(mostly becuse the screen is locked in full screen mode), I don't need another straw to break this camels back when windows has either broke or de evaluated it....and yes..... somehow it manages to get put out of admin mode but still works... thus why I use the task/bat to restart the program in admin mode every couple of hours.
I guess the main reason why I can no longer us bat file tasks is it puts focus to the cmd window which is very distracting.... which it never use to do I been using these things for a decade now...
Now from what I am read powerscript may be my hope, but unsure if it will popup the same as the cmd.exe. But I am bad as complicated script, that said I have used auto hotkey before, would that work, to just run a couple simple programs in admin mode every few hours with no popups?
Also now that I think I'd rather use auto hotkey(if it will work) than bat to exe, as kaspersky and malwarebytes ate all my self made exe's twice already......
also anyone know of a link bar alternative? Its a nice and simple program, but the gdi errors are annoying.