Programmaticall y open compmgmt.msc

[eSolTec, Inc. 501(c)(3)]

Thank you in advance for any and all assistance. I'm building a technician's
tool and I'm trying to create a Jump Panel of buttons to the Windows System32
folder to open files programmaticall y. I have the majority of the program
files opening except the Microsoft Computer Management console.

I've tried in the button click event
Shell("C:\WINDO WS\system32\com pmgmt.msc")

and nothing happens. No open program, no errors nothing.

Michael

[M. Posseth]

well ...... :-)

the path environment variabel always points to system32

start , configuration , system , advanced tab , environment variabels

otherwise all executables that are located there wouldn`t start withoput
explicitly calling them with there full location

cmd , msconfig , ping etc etc etc etc etc

so in my opinion it is not necesary to call them with there full path as
someone has then messed so much with windows that it wouldn`t even run
properly ( maybe cripled )

I wonder what will happen with Environ("System Root") when you change the
path settings :-)
regards

Michel Posseth [MCP]



"Theo Verweij" wrote:

Or to be completely sure:
System.Diagnost ics.Process.Sta rt(Environ("Sys temRoot"&"\syst em32\compmgmt.m sc")

Which will work as long as windows works, so you don't have the
discussion who's problem it is.
Michel Posseth [MCP] wrote:

Well it only has one flaw

what if the user does not have a path

C:\WINDOWS\syst em32\compmgmt.m sc

on one of Computers for instance the windows path is

C:\WIN\system32 \compmgmt.msc

And on another one it is

D:\WIN\system32 \compmgmt.msc

you would better use

System.Diagnost ics.Process.Sta rt("compmgmt.ms c")
This will always work ( unless someone messed with the evironment variabels
, however this is not your problem

regards

Michel Posseth [MCP]
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Thank you everyone, but especially thank you Theo. What you suggested
worked.

Michael

"Theo Verweij" wrote:

use:
System.Diagnos tics.Process.St art("C:\WINDOWS \system32\compm gmt.msc")
eSolTec wrote:
Thank you in advance for any and all assistance. I'm building a
technician' s
tool and I'm trying to create a Jump Panel of buttons to the Windows
System32
folder to open files programmaticall y. I have the majority of the
program
files opening except the Microsoft Computer Management console.

I've tried in the button click event
Shell("C:\WINDO WS\system32\com pmgmt.msc")

and nothing happens. No open program, no errors nothing.

Michael