Open Action Center (Windows 10)?

[therks]

As the title says, does anyone know of a way to open the Windows 10 action center using AutoIt. Maybe via rundll or some other applet?

My intention is to just hide the normal icon, then have an AutoIt system tray icon that will open the action center on click. And I can't just send the Win+A hotkey because I have it disabled. 

Thanks for reading.

[careca]

control /name Microsoft.ActionCenter
control wscui.cpl

[therks]

I actually tried those but they open the Security and Maintenance panel for me, not the action center. 

[iamtheky]

powershell -c "Get-ControlPanelItem -Name "'Action Center'" | Show-ControlPanelItem"

 

if that fails use the first part to verify that action center package is available

powershell -c "Get-ControlPanelItem -Name A*"

 

[jguinch]

Do you mean this :

ShellExecute("ms-settings:notifications")

The list of settings can be found here : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-r/mt228342

 

Edited January 8, 2017 by jguinch

[Subz]

I believe he is referring to the Windows 10 Action Center Toast Notifier (see attached), which you see when you press Win+a

 

[therks]

Yes, @Subz has exactly what I'm looking for. I guess I should have included a screenshot myself. Thanks Subz.

[iamtheky]

Well that is a fine question,  is there a way to determine what command win+a is executing? 

[jetterer]

Have you tried this:

Send ( "{LWINDOWN}" & "a" & "{LWINUP}")

 

[anthonyjr2]

It is much more difficult than I thought it would be to figure out what WIN+A is calling, and looking through every possible thread on the Internet still has me coming up with nothing. I can't find a Powershell command to open the Action Center either.

[iamtheky]

Maybe its not a thing, maybe its two things...

Maybe the question is how to create a blank toast and populate it with an object, in this case being the Action Center.

What is the command to just make the side window pop out?

Edited January 10, 2017 by iamtheky

[Subz]

This works for me:

_ActionCenter()
Func _ActionCenter()
    Local $hSysTray = ControlGetHandle('[Class:Shell_TrayWnd]', '', '[Class:TrayButton;Instance:3]')
    If @error Then MsgBox(16, "Error", "System tray not found")
    ControlClick('', '', $hSysTray)
EndFunc

 

[therks]

  On 1/10/2017 at 4:02 PM, jetterer said:

Have you tried this:

Send ( "{LWINDOWN}" & "a" & "{LWINUP}")

 

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No that won't work because the Win+A shortcut key is disabled.

  On 1/11/2017 at 12:54 AM, Subz said:

This works for me:

_ActionCenter()
Func _ActionCenter()
    Local $hSysTray = ControlGetHandle('[Class:Shell_TrayWnd]', '', '[Class:TrayButton;Instance:3]')
    If @error Then MsgBox(16, "Error", "System tray not found")
    ControlClick('', '', $hSysTray)
EndFunc

 

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This does not work for me. I can make it work if I change Instance:3 to 1, but this also requires the normal Action Center icon to be visible, which is what I'm specifically trying to replace.

Thanks for the help guys. I'm assuming it can't be done, or at least it has yet to be discovered how. I do understand I have a very specific set of circumstances I'm trying to work with, but I figured if there was any way to do what I want, someone on the forums here might know.

[anthonyjr2]

I even tried monitoring DLLs when I pressed the hotkey to maybe track down what command was being passed, but that stuff got way more complicated than I could handle way too quickly, haha. In any case, I think the consensus I saw after searching around is to send some sort of blank Toast Notification to the Action Center.

[Nhokkiz]

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
ControlClick("classname=Shell_TrayWnd", "", "TrayButton2")

use this

 

[Somerset]

Thread is almost 3 years old , nobody has replied in all that time. So why now?

Further looking at your brief history; you have a penchant for reviving old threads.

You are 3 for 3 on your behavior patterns..

 

Edited December 23, 2019 by Somerset