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Samrae: As a matter of fact, that's exactly what I was thinking; running it through Task Scheduler as well =)

terrypin: I have a 3rd party program that enables that option for me. Check the attached image. Cory: Thanks for the explanation of what you were saying. That sounds pretty advanced and thanks for saying all that. But I finally figured out what the problem is. I stated what it was a few posts back. Now I have one little tiny problem =) I have Macro Express in my Startup folder, and I set that shortcut to run as an Administrator. Yet when I restart my computer and the computer starts up, Macro Express doesn't automatically run; I have to manually start it. Lame. But I believe I know the solution. No worries about that.

Nope, I was incorrect. I finally figured it out. Apparently Task Manager runs as an administrator, and Macro Express isn't running as an administrator. I ran it as an administrator, and it worked! I just hope that all my other macros would still work. It's too late at night for me to try it out now, so I'll try that tomorrow. Thanks for everyone's responses.

Hmm, I may have figured the reason why the macro becomes unresponsive. I tried a different example to show a window that is minimized once the Task Manager is opened, and it showed that window. So is there some option that causes Macro Express to never use a macro on Task Manager itself? (or in other words: Is Task Manager ignoring any macro that is attempting to access it?)

Hello, and sorry for the delay in my reply; I thought I signed up for notifications of replies to this post, but I apparently missed selecting that somehow. Note: I am using Version 4.2.1.1, because I had some problem or something when I tried to install the latest version (and I believe that's one reason to why my macros didn't work). But anyways: Cory: I've tried the simple attempts with no luck, so I was thinking of a more advanced approach like you mentioned, using "controls" which I don't know too much about. What's that WinForm thing you're talking about? I've also tried to put in delays to see if it works, it never did. "Wait for control to exist"? terrypin: Thank you so much for creating that! That's pretty much exactly how I set it up before. I even tried putting a delay in the beginning, with no luck. I thought this example would've been perfect, but it doesn't work here. I don't understand why Macro Express doesn't see Task Manager? I see no running man icon in the bottom right corner of the screen. Alan: I see what you mean by activating the macro with the shortcut keys, and as a matter of fact, that possibly could work, yet haven't tried it yet. The reason why is because CTRL+Shift+ESC is a little annoying compared to the old skool CTRL+ALT+Delete. So I avoid pressing the CTRL+Shift+ESC with a 3rd party program I got. If you double click on the Taskbar, it opens the Task Manager. So easy and I got used to that. So I open the Task Manager by that method. Maybe if you modify your macro, let me try it out, ya? Thanks all for your replies.

Hello, so the topic title is pretty much self explanatory. When I open the Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc), it opens to the Processes tab initially. The thing is that I don't use this tab at all; I click on the Details tab, since I'm more familiar with that. I would like to automatically open the Details tab every time I open the Task Manager. How can I do that? I've tried a few different attempts of creating Macros that try to select the Details tab, yet they didn't work. I want Macro Express to be aware of whenever I open the Task Manager (Taskmgr.exe) to use the keyboard to press CTRL+TAB five times to go to the Details tab. Can you please try to make a Macro to make it work somehow? Thanks

Thanks for the replies, yet those methods don't work exactly the way that I wanted it to work. I just hope in the future release, this option will exist (the one I stated in reply #10 above).

Thanks for all the replies, and I apologize for not mentioning a reply to the suggestions that I wasn't able to understand, so if you're reading this and you had a suggestion that I didn't respond about directly, then please help me understand what you're talking about. I really do appreciate this program, Macro Express; it's a really simple and useful program to do the functions its supposed to and has many in-depth variations of different tasks it can execute. This program is much appreciated and I thank you Invision/Insight/Wintools for this product. It's a one of its kind, compared to the majority of other macro programs. But also, if any of the programmers are reading this, I hope that in the next release, you can include an option: • When attempting to run a macro, forcefully end any previously running macro, and initiate this new macro to run. That is the best, most simplest way that I can sum up my whole idea into (the line right above this). Thanks

Why can't there be a 'second-order' version of aborting a macro? So an option where that [the launch attempt of any macro will forcefully end any currently running macro, if any are running.] (that's the best way to put it in words) I need something like that. Can the programmers implement that feature in there? I am aware of the key I set to abort macros (the Pause key), but like I stated above, i want to cut out this middle man. I actually did try to abort the running macros in the beginning of any macro, and that just ends the newly-runned macro immediately.

Cory: Whenever I run the macros, I am physically here at the computer observing and verifying that the macros are on task and not trailing off doing their own thing. So no worries about them running for long periods of time. There's also another example for a different macro that I have which locates and selects a certain music file in File Explorer (Windows 8.1) that's playing in Winamp. Yet at rare times, File Explorer tends to slightly lag a little bit, where the macro gets stuck halfway through the macro and doesn't reach its end result. This causes the green running man in the taskbar to stay active waiting and stuck. I prefer to keep he macro script exactly the way it is, and not change anything I wanted it to do. Assuming the macro gets stuck, I want to run it again to where this previous macro would terminate and this new attempt of it takes over. So in summation and simplicity: • I want the option of whenever attempting to run any macro, using a keyboard shortcut, to terminate any previously running macro and start this new macro. terrypin: Give me an example of what you mean by the clipboard = stop. Yet also, the program I use runs full screen, so having the mouse go to the taskbar and click the green running man is no longer an option. It actually sounded pretty cool and would work, yet I remembered the program I use takes the whole screen. Thanks for that suggestion though. Thanks again guys

Hi, I was trying to look for an option in Macro Express or try some macros to attempt this, yet cannot find any solution. So I have Macro #1 running to repeat something 10 times. Yet there are times when I no longer care about letting this macro complete the 10 repetitions it has to make. I would like to start Macro #2 when Macro #1 is six repetitions through. Once I start Macro #2, this would forcefully stop Macro #1 and begin Macro #2. I set the 'Pause' button to abort any running macro, and that's pretty cool and works effectively, yet I want to cut out this middle man at times: Like I could start Macro #1, press Pause to stop this macro, then start Macro #2. But I actually want some option to where: I start Macro #1. While Macro #1 is still running, I want to start Macro #2. The initiation of Macro #2 would tell any previously running macro to stop, then let Macro #2 to run all by itself. How can I do this? Thanks