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  1. I seem ot be having some trouble with activiations using the Windows Key. Win+Z works on my Win7 machines, but after upgrading one of my laptops to Win10, it no longer works. Neither does my Win+G macro. Did Win10 seize control of some more key combinations that makes them unavailable in Macro Express?
  2. Paul, thanks for the tip. I can't use AutoIt at this point because I am sharing macros throughout my organization and installing AutoIt on all the employees' PCs so that this works for everyone creates a maintenance issue my IT folks won't sign up for. But I was able to make use of Window Handles in order to overcome my current issue. As long as the issue doesn't become chronic, using MEP's Window Handle capability might do the trick. But I do hope they update MEP at some point to address the underlying issue of not having a way to prevent hidden windows interfering with visible windows. Thanks again for the input. Jace
  3. Well, I've only got two montors, but all 26 of my icons are on one. So it's getting a little tight. Thanks for commisserating though.
  4. I think I'm having a similar problem. I open an Outlook folder whose window title is "PubContacts - Business in Public Folders - Microsoft Outlook" and then attempt to "Activate" the window using "Partial Match" and the string "PubContacts - Business". But it fails consistently, even if I have just a one-line macro containing the Activate command. In the past, this has been affected by the existence of hidden windows with conflicting titles. And sure enough, when I look at the hidden windows, I find two additinioal hidden with the same title. So far, I've never had a need to access hidden windows. They have always just been something I have to work around. Is there way to tell the Activate command to ignore hidden windows and just activate the visible window? Jace
  5. The Win7 systme tray does not show the running man because the icon is "hidden" (along with 20 or others that I don't want to show). But when I go to the "hidden" list and Customize it tell Windows to tell windows to "Show icons and notifications" it is onlyeffective for the named macro that is currently executing. Is there a way to change the tooltip associated with the runnig man so his "name" isn't different for every macro? How can I tell windows to ALWAYS show the running man? Jace
  6. Good tip. The developer site says it is compatible w/ "Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Server 2003" and specifically says it is not Vista compatible. No mention either way regarding Win 7. Are you using it w/ Win 7? I'll give it a try and see what happens.
  7. Already submitted the incident, but I referred them to this thread. As an aside, I only had one message window open and confirmed in the debugger that the path to the control I was referencing was the same as the path to the control I was capturing. Couldn't get it to work i the debugger either. That's when I concluded I wasn't imagining things.
  8. Oh, my problem isn't even quite that bad. I'm using OL 2007. I can highlight all the controls and capture the z-order w/ Get Control. My problem is just that it doesn't actually get the recipient off the "To" line. I can get "From" and "Subject" though. Will submit a report to ISS. As always, thanks for the quick reply, and for the SMTP headers tip, Cory. Had not thought of that workaround.
  9. I am attempting to get the value of the "To" line in an email message that's in my inbox. So I open the message and use Get Control to retrieve the text from the control. But the text keeps coming up blank. I can use Get Control to retrieve the "From" line (screenshot001), and the subject (screenshot002), but attempts to get text from the "To" or "cc" lines returns a blank string (screenshot003; actually I think single space). This worked perfectly for so long, but I haven't use the macro for a while and so can't know if an upgrade to MEP caused the change in behavior or something else. Can someone duplicate the behavior? Any ideas on what's wrong? Or even an alternate way to obtain the name/email of a recipient frmo an existing message in the inbox? Thanks. Jace
  10. If (ok, when) my macro hangs at runtime, is there a way to determine what line and macro (e.g. called macro) it is in when I abort it?
  11. Oh, it turns out that one registry turns off some other WIN key shortcuts as well (like WIN-E and WIN-R). So folks who use the registry entry to turn off Win+1, Win+2, etc. in Windows 7 will need to write some macros to restore the functions of whatever other WIN key shortcuts you want to keep.
  12. Thanks Paul. You're quite right. I was so radar-locked on this from the MEP perspective, I completely neglected to look at it from the OS perspective. Thanks for the link. And everyone, let this be a lesson to us all. Google first. Post second. Jace
  13. Before switching to Windows 7, I had a series of macros whose activation were <WIN>+1, <WIN>+2, <WIN>+3, etc. Under Windows 7, those now appear to be reserved system keys for activating applications on the Task Bar. Is there a way to reclaim those key for use as macro activations?
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