alias for toggle internet proxy

[wjamoe]

You might like this, it is a simple alias for toggling the internet proxy on/off

"%FARRDIR%\Scripts\Control Panel (cpanel)\Internet Options (cpanel).lnk";;;sendkeys {sleep 1500}+{TAB}{HOME}{RIGHT}{RIGHT}{RIGHT}{RIGHT}%l%x

it will show the new state .

if you want to reverse the state press {SPACE}

you now have to to press {ENTER} twice to commit the setting

assumptions:

• this version only  works for english version of windows (Lan settings, proXy)
• it only works if your system administrator did not disable the communication dialog (5th TAB)

• there are no built in checks, to verify the above!

maybe you can modify it and upload a version for your language.

wiem

[IainB]

@wjamoe: Thanks for that post. I don't need the alias (not yet, anyway), but it just taught me something about the simplicity of an alias in FARR.

[Filipe Meira Castro]

Seems really nice, thanks for sharing

Unfortunatly it does not work in my computer (W7 32b, latest FARR), after troubleshooting found the window gets out of focus with the sleep command {sleep 1500}

Tried, offcourse, taking it out or increasing but it does not help..

If I just lauch the command and do the keys by myself then it works...

[mouser]

Filipe, it may be that you have an option set for FARR to grab focus. now whether you want to keep that or not i dont know.

[skwire]

I just added a commandline mode to my IE Proxy Toggle application so that your alias can work more reliably across all languages.  Download the application, unpack it to a folder and you can call it in your alias like these examples:

c:\path\to\ieproxytoggle.exe -on
c:\path\to\ieproxytoggle.exe -off
c:\path\to\ieproxytoggle.exe -toggle

[wjamoe]

Skwire, I was looking for a small proxy toggle tool, but I couldn't find it. Thanks, I'm certainly going to use your program.

There is only a very small advantage of my alias over your exe, it will work out of the box.  (most of the time)