How To Run Task If *Not* Connected To Specific Network?

3.1 I do not know how to "hide" the EZ window after it has started.
- The terminology is "hide" not "close".
- I know how to make it run hidden all the time.
- If you used the guidance in Make Task scheduler run a batch file minimised and with a specific icon - TenForums then I can suggest a small alteration to the vbs file involved so that it runs hidden all the time.
- If you did not use that guidance then please tell me how you are triggering the batch file so I can think about how to interupt it with a vbs file that achieves the run hidden objective.

3.2 But if EZ has an option in its settings to make it appear in the Notifications area [SysTray] then perhaps you can set that from the start.

Denis

Applications that have a minimise to the Notifications area capability follow their own rules that scripts, such as batch files, cannot normally emulate.
- If it cannot do its job in this minimised to the Notifications area state then all you will be able to achieve is having it minimised on the Taskbar [which is what I think you have said you are now achieving with the batch file].
- You might look through its help documentation / support site / user forum [if any] to see if there is an option such as a command line switch to minimise to Notification area when the job has been done but, if not, I do not expect you to be able to make any further progress.

I experimented for ages with minimising Task manager to the Notification area at user logon. It also follows its own [unknown, internal] rules. The closest I was ever able to achieve was to start it minimised to the Taskbar. Luckily, Task manager's own rules allow me then to double-click on its Taskbar icon and that minimises it to the Notification area instead.

Denis

3.1 Running it hidden all the time means you will probably not see it at all - forcing it to be hidden will not let it be seen at all. It's worth trying if you want to.

Try3 said:

- If you used the guidance in Make Task scheduler run a batch file minimised and with a specific icon - TenForums then I can suggest a small alteration to the vbs file involved so that it runs hidden all the time.
- If you did not use that guidance then please tell me how you are triggering the batch file so I can think about how to interupt it with a vbs file that achieves the run hidden objective.

{That mp4 is still downlaoding}

Denis

Open the vbs in Notepad [right-click, Edit] and change the line ending
, 7
to
, 0
and that will make it run hidden.

Code:

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run chr(34) & "C:\Tools\ThisBatch\ThisBatch.lnk" & Chr(34), 0
Set WshShell = Nothing

You will need to check that EZ still does its job when it runs hidden.

{That mp4 downloaded eventually - I did not see anything that affects the situation}

Denis

I think its own internal workings must be preventing it running hidden then. I would not expect there to be a solution.
Hold on, I'll post again in a minute.

Different subject
The background in your mp4 makes me think that you are using desktop folders as a menu system. You might prefer to use a Taskbar Toolbar
Taskbar Toolbars - Creating and naming, customising, moving [post #20] - TenForumsTutorials

Denis