Timeline for How to make a scheduled window-creating program not steal the focus?
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| Jul 28, 2012 at 9:52 | comment | added | Axel Fontaine | This unfortunately prevents the Task Scheduler from correctly stopping the task and detecting if instances are already running. Long-running repeatable tasks frequently start running in parallel. May be a problem. | |
| Apr 25, 2012 at 19:25 | comment | added | Melikoth | I've used a method similar to this in the past to make windows invisible. Good call. | |
| Apr 25, 2012 at 18:48 | comment | added | Bob |
On Windows 7 I'd recommend PowerShell (Start-Process).
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| Apr 25, 2012 at 17:55 | vote | accept | Andreas Rejbrand | ||
| Apr 25, 2012 at 17:55 | comment | added | Andreas Rejbrand | This works very well! I'll accept it. | |
| Apr 25, 2012 at 17:27 | comment | added | user3463 | I'd avoid VBScript purely because it is insecure and some shops don't allow it at all. However, this solution will work, so I'm voting it up. | |
| Apr 25, 2012 at 17:25 | history | answered | Geo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |