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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Windows key as a modifier using Sendkeys?
« on: August 08, 2013, 04:54 AM »
Thanks for the link - I read that when I started using FARR but hadn't played with it yet.

However my problem for this project (not for me but for some tutorials I'm doing for AfterDawn) is figuring out how (or if) I can setup Winkey combinations at all in LBC. From the help file and my testing it seems that only Ctrl, Shift, and Alt can be used as State Modifiers in SendKeys which seems to rule out all Win+X combinations.

Or there's something I just don't understand about how SendKeys works which is entirely possible.

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LaunchBar Commander / Windows key as a modifier using Sendkeys?
« on: August 08, 2013, 04:30 AM »
I was hoping I could use SendKeys to launch the Run dialog from LBC. Originally I was hoping there might be a shell command to do that but I can't find any reference to one. My next thought was to use SendKeys but from what I can tell that's not possible.

If I'm understanding the documentation correctly only the State Modifiers can be used in that way. I could combine Ctrl-r, Shift-r, or Alt-r, but not Win-r. Is that correct?

I also remembered that NirCmd has its own SendKey function which would probably work except that it doesn't seem to support the WinKey at all.

The really annoying part is that I'm only trying to include it as a sort of baseline option. My actual recommendation is going to be replacing it with something like Run-Command at a minimum. However I don't like it as a default simply because it doesn't handle symlinks properly. That really won't make any difference for most people and it doesn't actually matter to me since I'm hooked on FARR.

Mostly I just want to be able to reproduce everything I consider worth messing with from the Start Menu in LBC and it bugs me. Unless somebody knows another way to launch the Run dialog I think I'm probably out of luck.

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Living Room / Re: Please help superboyac build a server (2013 edition).
« on: August 08, 2013, 03:10 AM »
Nope. The blood and the pain (and the risk of a tetanus infection) jogs some little grey cells and that one obvious beginner thing you thought you checked 200 tries earlier (but actually didn't) turns out to be the thing that needed doing.
-40hz (August 07, 2013, 09:10 PM)
I'm certainly not going to deny that's it some of the time. We all know I'd be lying.

But, at least for me, more often than not it was things like the fact IBM buried the compatibility notes for the ServerRAID III adapter in an obscure corner of their website and didn't bother to either include them in their server docs so I would know why the 8MB of free space that should have been at the end was at the beginning where the partition should have started. Nothing more fun than spending 6 hours beating your head against a wall only to solve the problem with a Win98 boot disk.  >:(

No, I'm not bitter. Why do you ask?

THE BOFH STILL RULEs!

Hail to the Bastard!

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: No hints for menu items and problem with rundll32 command
« on: August 08, 2013, 02:24 AM »
See first post for solution

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LaunchBar Commander / (solved) Problems with RunDll32 command
« on: August 07, 2013, 10:20 PM »
I edited this post to clarify the problem and include the solution. You can ignore the 2 posts below.

Problem: Unable to get the Windows Features Control Panel to populate when launching it directly using the following rundll32.exe command:

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL appwiz.cpl,,2

Solution: After a bunch of testing it appears the problem is in rundll32.exe itself. Populating the list of features is actually done by TrustedInstaller.exe which can only be run by the built-in System account. System fails to create the svchost.exe process to do this if rundll32.exe is launched by any process besides explorer.exe  (via the Run dialog) or cmd.exe (directly from the command prompt). I ran into the same problem attempting to launch it indirectly from the command prompt using NirCmd's exec feature.

As an alternative it can be launched using the built-in alias of optionalfeatures. Technically it's optionalfeatures.exe, but it only seems to work in LBC if I leave off the .exe file extension and doesn't even work with that syntax when launching via NirCmd exec.

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