How do you launch an EXE (anytime, not at the startup)?

[Michael Jones]

I have tried everything, and can't figure it out. I just want to be
able to shell an app from a VB program. I have my VB program running
fine, and it does everything just fine, EXCEPT running programs. I
mean launching them, that's all.

I already know how to run them at startup using the "Run Once" feature
and also running them everytime XPE starts with the registry setting.
That is not what I want.

I want to be at a different location and tell the XPE appliance to
shell notepad.exe if I want to. Or tell it to run an update (a
setup.msi) to a program, after I have delivered it to the XPE
appliance, via FTP.

Note that I have included the WMI component, and all the files are
there to run the various EXE's. Heck, I can't even get XPE to launch
Notepad.exe.

I have an application that is a service (written in VB) that waits for
a file to appear in a folder, which it reads, that tells it which EXE
to launch. I have tried both WinExec() and Shell(), and neither
works.

Can anybody help me?

Thanks,
Michael

 

[Slobodan Brcin]

I have an application that is a service (written in VB) that waits for

a file to appear in a folder, which it reads, that tells it which EXE
to launch. I have tried both WinExec() and Shell(), and neither
works.

Can anybody help me?

Is this a minlogon based build?

Try using CreateProcess it is low level API and will always work.


Best regards,
Slobodan

 

[Michael Jones]

Is this a minlogon based build?

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It used to be. Now, it is a Windows Logon build. I really wanted to
use the MinLogon, and originally had that type, but I couldn't reboot
or launch EXE's, so I switched to Windows Logon to try to fix it. I
would rather go back to MinLogon, if I could.
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