Interesting Limitation in AutoIt

[herewasplato]

...the purge function that the OP mentioned could be done via AutoIt instead of xxcopy...

What!

Is this Jeopardy?

Should I have made my post in the form of a question. :-)

Maybe I should have posted:

Could the purge function that the OP mentioned could be done via AutoIt instead of xxcopy?

:-)

Seriously, if you answered lokster back on the suggestion to use StdinWrite, I missed it.

Please run this little test:

change the frequency of the beep lines as desired

run it once with your system unlocked and see what it does

then run it again with the system locked and hear what it does

obviously you can lock the system during the 5+ second loop of beeps

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)

$fh = FileOpen("test.bat", 2)
FileWrite($fh, "pause")
FileClose($fh)

For $i = 1 To 5
    Sleep(1000)
    Beep(8000, 1)
Next

$pid = Run("test.bat", "", @SW_SHOW, 1)
WinWait("cmd.exe")
StdinWrite($pid, "{SPACE}")
Beep(5000, 1)

Sleep(2222)

Run("cmd")
WinWait("cmd.exe")
If WinExists("cmd.exe") Then
    WinSetTitle("cmd.exe", "", _
            "StdinWrite, WinWait, WinExists and WinSetTitle will work when locked")
EndIf
Beep(5000, 1)

If this works for your script, then this should give you a work around while you learn how to do it all via AutoIt.

Let me know how/if it works for you...