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it does. -1 is the default value, so there is no difference between $colMeta = _IETagNameGetCollection($oIE, "meta", -1) and $colMeta = _IETagNameGetCollection($oIE, "meta") The first is simply "explicit" and therefore theoretically "better" coding.

Hmmm, Not sure that I understand completely. Firstly I wanted to determine if the PC's were running a specific exe (not whether they were turned on), secondly there is a location that all PC's can access (shared network drive). I have things working, but I'm doing everything through files, currently there are 18 text files, 3 per PC. One for stats, that records login and logout details for later repoting, one that just "updates" every 5 seconds to determine that the app is still running, and one that the Staff PC can update with messages to "send" to the public PC's. The app running on the public PC's updates the "stats" file (for it's PC name) every login and logout, it updates the "alive" file (for its PC name) every 5 seconds with a timestamp, and it checks the "msg" file every 5 seconds to see if the Staff PC is attempting to communicate with it, if there is a new entry, the public PC displays the new message in a msgbox. The app on the staff PC queries the "stats" files on request (usually once a month) to generate utilisation statistics, queries the "alive" files every 10 seconds and notifies the user of the Staff PC if the app is no longer active on a public PC, and updates the "msg" files when the staff member wants to send a message to a public PC. Can now modify this fairly easily so the that "msg" files can be used to get the app on the public Pc's to change session time, "logout" etc, as well as just displaying messages. So I now have a working application, but I'm convinced that there must be a better way. Going to go with what works at the moment, but I'm sure there must be a way to send messages without the troublesome files. Thanks all for the help!

Hmmmm, I can sort of see your point here, but: Some background: I work for a library in New Zealand. The library is owned, operated and controlled by the local council. Most of our PC labs are operated by a system called Pharos, it manages PC access, printing, booking, statistics etc. One of our sites doesn't have access to this system because of its physical location (apparently the telecommunications network to this area is not "broad" enough to support the system integrating with the other sites. Therefore it is running alone. Previously access and stats have been managed by the staff at the centre running around with various pieces of paper, identifying you was on each PC and "asking" them to leave after a certain amount of time. Very time intensive, not terribly accurate, and brought the staff into frequent conflict with the customers. The system I'm talking about has already helped immensely but I am now attempting to add features to make it "feel" more like the Pharos system that we have working at the other sites. unfortunatley while library management (i.e. MY management) is very supportive and appeciative, the council IM department is not being helpful at all, and they control the network access. I have permission to put anything I like onto the PC's and the public network folders, but they will not give me access to anything that the staff at the centre do not already have. The reason they allow me to add anything to the PC's is that they have been "deep frozen" and the system automatically resets on log off. However by loading my app onto the network space and getting staff to open it once from each PC in the morning, I can get around this restriction. One of the problems with large organisations (and a council is one of the largest) is that there are EPIC amounts of red tape to get through to get anything done. It took me 6 months to get the use of AutoIt approved for my own use. On of the main reasons to do this (aside from helping out the staff in this area, and proving I can) is to help get the general use of AutoIT applications approved. Have thousands (well, hundreds anyway) of uses for this for general staff, but am unable to action them. If I can demonstarte a clear benefit provided WITHOUT COST TO THE ORGANISATION it will make future uses much easier to push through. will go away and search on server client.

Thanks all, @PSaltyDS: no access, no rights, no authorisation, no.... anything helpful really I have a folder, and I can put sh*t in it. that's really the limit of my access to the network in general. @Others, yeah, I thinks files is probably the way to go. had a bit of a play today and now the exe creates (or updates) a txt file with the PC name (so each PC is using it's own, avoiding access errors) with login information. This is working..... okay, but not ideal. Currently "users" must enter an id and select a session time from a dropdown box. On login, the file updates with the id, the chosen time and a timestamp, and re-updates on logout, so one can assume that if there is no "logout time" they are still logged in (and easily work out how long they have left). Also allows me to easily query the files for utilisation statistics. Not thrilled with the idea of re-updating the file every x seconds, but need to to ensure the app hasn't been "killed" (I've made it pretty hard to do this). @Tankbuster "server/client messages"? this sounds like a MUCH better approach, but no, have no experience or knowledge, helpful link? My next step(s) involve allowing the "Staff" PC to adjust the time remaining or "talk" to the public PC's by messagebox. I can see this being possible by more files, but it really doesn't seem..... tidy. off topic: Is there a particular benefit to using ini files as opposed to text files?

ta, but I don't think this is what I'm looking for. The executable is on a network drive, and I can't access the PC that the network drive is "local" on, if that makes sense? I have a setup where there are 6 "public" Pc's and 1 staff PC. I have designed an executable that controls access to the public PC's, and I wanted to be able to check from the staff PC that the executable was running on all 6 public PC's The only location that all 7 PC's can access is a network drive hosted on a server that I have no physical access to. Sounds suspiciously like this is not a possibility? which sounds suspiciously like my followup question on remotely querying the running instances of the application for current user information is not likely to be workable either Might have to back up some and re-look at my design.

Heya, Possibly going about this backwards, but I have a compiled script on a network drive, and I wish to know which PC's/Users/whatever are currently running the executable. tried searching the forums, and the helpfile, but didn't have a lot of luck, any advice?

The problem is providing information on how to do this could easily be used to change other things,

Heya, Your middle block of code (Quoted) will terminate if the username is not in the correct format. presumably you would prefer if the user had the option to re-enter the information? To do this, combine it with your initial loop.

hmmmmm, discovered that I was running a slightly older version of autoit, that didn't include this udf, now downloaded the latest (which does have it).

Hi, Trying to download a file from an FTP, no idea where to start, so I thought I'd hit the forums, lot of helpful information, but it all relates to UDFs that I can't find! finally found a FTP.au3 from Yashied, version 1, that seems to do everything I want, but the first code line in the au3 file is include winapi.au3, which I now can't find! I've been through the "downloads" section 3 times, tried searching the forums (1000's of results) and even tried google. It's somewhere right in front of me and I just can't see it right????

personally no, try uploading your script.

Two or three things come to mind. when you say a "fresh file on each" do you mean a new empty document? If so, does it matter which one you use? If they are not empty, you can check for the window with title "Untitled - Notepad" and text - "whatever" If it is simple a matter of sending to the same one each time (but it doesn't matter which one originally) then use WinGetHandle

HotKeySet is definatley what you are looking for then. Declare a global variable $exitloop set it false before your loop and loop until it is true. Register a hotkey for esc, and in the function set the variable to true. Lookup HotKeySet for more infomration andor an example.

hmmmm, without touching on keyloggers in general, HotKeySet is a function in AutoIT that can can detect a specific keypress event. The example in the helpfile actually uses the esc key. Look it up.

bump again, Several views, but not a lot of replies. Can I provide more information?