Computer Hope
Microsoft => Microsoft DOS => Topic started by: ham fam on December 16, 2021, 09:18:35 AM
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I'm trying to use my batch file, to close a previously opened window. for some reason I can't open it minimized via the batch file. The program is housed on a server i don't have direct access to. So it seems to me, finding a way to minimize it is the answer.
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What program ? ?...what is the server running OS ? ?...if it's not your server you will get no help here.
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I agree with Patio. More detail needed here.
A possible workaround. Use dual monitors. That way you have a place so something else while the remote program dominates your first monitor.
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The server isn't mine. I don't know what version of software runs on the server. What i do know is that in order to access schematics for the equipment we manufacture, I need to run an App. I have a shortcut that i was provided for this app. The shortcut opens a window, inside this window are buttons which launch other programs for viewing prints, printing prints and converting them to PDF. What I am looking for is the Original window that pops up, which is just a standard window in my mind, just like all the other windows that pop up on my taskbar. It always pops up on the main screen and is 3 times bigger than it needs to be. So every morning I fire that app open, then move it to another monitor, and shrink it down so that only the 3 buttons that i will actually use are still visible. I was trying to automate some of this. My laptop runs Windows 10. I think this App, may use Excel, as sometimes an error pops up about excel. I think if this app is launching at the same time as opening another Excel program, that happens.
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You can try to minimize all windows with this batch that use a powershell :
@echo off
Title Minimize All Windows
Powershell -C "(New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application).MinimizeAll()"
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I wonder if I can use a variation of what you wrote to only close this one window which is titled "Megtec Apps"?