dont want it running all the time

[John1]

Its working fine.
I put in a 5 sec pause using the 'sleep' instruction, and its working ok now.
But its doing it twice. I dont really mind, its ok, its just odd. I dont see
any reason why it would do it twice, i will check the startup folder again.

I must thank you all for your help and encouragement for this piece of script.
It might seem like small beer to you, but getting this thing to behave is a
big deal to me.

Regards to you all, John

[SadBunny]

What is the actual script you ended up with? Maybe there's a problem.

Chugging barrels of whiskey is probably unwise if small beer is all you need. All good mate.

[John1]

Here is a pic.

It doesnt seem to do it twice any more,

but im not sure if it does or not.

as a program or script its very small maybe not even a kilobyte and i dont mind if it runs twice, it does the job and i feel SO MUCH better, now that i come back to the machine with a cup of tea, and its all ready to go.

 

Well nearly,

i have that annoying message that defender is turned off, which i already know. i think i will go into CMD .com and simply add .old suffix to MSASCUI  ( or whatever it is in there)

 

Cheers, John

[John1]

thats sorted that out.

[SadBunny]

That script is fine, if it's running multiple times it's something that you did as in maybe move it into several startup folders?

[John1]

Hi SadBunny,

Yes, i think i did something like that, i vaguely remember putting a shortcut in somewhere, which i have since cleared out, that may have been in the startup folder, i tried lots of things before settling on a short delay which certainly worked.

As you said there may be something in the graphics or display mechanism which has to initialise  before the special function keyboard keys are recognised. I am pretty sure its only running once now.

Several startup folders? I only ever found one, does win7 have one for each user or something.

Regards, John

[SadBunny]

33 minutes ago, John1 said:

Several startup folders? I only ever found one, does win7 have one for each user or something.

Yes there should be. One for every specific user and one general one that is included for every user. Grabbing from Google:

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Your personal startup folder should be C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup.

The All Users startup folder should be C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup.