Sebastian42

That debugger window only shows  when I do 'Test Run' - not if I use the hotkey - so that obstacle is over come.

The manipulation I need to do starts with selecting a control button. My macro can enter a TAB to highlight the first button, but whereas MANUALLY it's a matter of repeating TAB to 'move to' the Control button of interest, in the macro, entering the code for TAB does NOT have the same effect. That is my new obstacle. How else can I change the focus of control buttons ?

I need to use Macro Express because the window that opens has to be 'manipulated' - I can explain if you want to know - but i think the reason is irrelevant to solving my problem.

I succeeded in launching sendLeap from a macro (using the shortcut I mentioned), but before I can do the required manipulation, I have to close a Debugger Window that opens when the macro is run. It only requires a mouse click, so I have coded-in an ENTER press, but that is not closing the Debugger Window.

I'm happy to change tack; There exists an internet shortcut for opening Sendleap in Chrome; is there a way of referencing THAT in a macro to launch SendLeap ?

No need for a reply - I have managed to get the macro to launch SendLeap.

The next difficulty is that before opening Sendleap, a Debugger window opens and needs to be closed.

When I have ONE app (SendLeap) open in Chrome (and nothing else), and want to reference it in a macro, 12 Chrome entries show in the 'Running processes' - is there a way of identifying which of those is relevant to SendLeap ?

Correct

As it is now 4.20am, I will leave that task for daylight. I will keep you posted.

I was able to EXPORT all my macros, but that is a very small file compared to a backup (based on the size of a a backup I achieved years ago); so to be sure I don't lose valuable data, I tried to do a backup, but even for the default location I got an error message saying 'access denied'. How can I fix that ?

The problem turns out to be my misrepresentation of the facts, because I misunderstood what was happening. I had imported two macros, and tested only one. It failed and I assumed both failed. The failure was because I had taken the opportunity to rename the macro more appropriately, but not made that change in the batch file that calls the macro. Once I had done that, it worked. Another (that I had not tested) would have worked all along.

MEP works as before - thank you for your input.

I continued a new phase of this thread in another post, where both Cory and rberq have replied, so will 'continue ' there.

In a thread called DISABLEMENT, I described how MEP had stopped working and that it works again. Since I had uninstalled and then re-installed MEP, I needed to 'restore' the macros, and chose to restore only the text-strings (for starters). I'm no longer quite sure how I did it. I tested them and they work. Anyway, with MEP working again, I also wanted to restore the 'function' macros. I had expected to be able to export them 'in bulk' from another PC,  but did not succeed in that. so I exported them individually. Then imported them - individually - into 'this' system where the problem had been. The batch files in which they were referenced, do not work [like they used to].

In the previous thread, Cory suggested that the macros had not been loaded, and maybe that is the problem now. I suspect that MEP is working from one .mex file (for all the text strings) and that file does not include the .mex files for the 'function' macros. How do I get them incorporated into the one file that MEP operates from ?

MEP is working again now, so we could end this thread.

To open one, File > Open File....  That is too cumbersome for my purposes - I want to activate them by hotkey.

But I will keep that in mind for future troubleshooting.

I've since discovered the 'no macros selected' applies to ONE macro - possibly for editing. For future reference, how does one 'load' a macro ?

It has come good after reboots. And I think also placing a tick for automatic the key/mouse hooks.

It worked when I tested entering text strings into Notepad, but later in REAL applications, the hotkeys gave the wrong responses AGAIN, so the solution was only temporary.

Although a 'fatal error' occurred when I tried to create a new category - nevertheless it got created; and once I moved a macro into that, its hotkey worked.

I've noticed that in the MEP Explorer window, in the left pane, there is a no longer a tree of categories, and at the bottom it says 'no macros selected'

In Tools menu, I found an entry 'Restore mouse & keyboard hooks', so ticked that. Now there is NO response to pressing hotkeys, instead of incorrect response.

I have tried to run MEP with anti-virus disabled - NO improvement. Ditto for running after booting into Safe Mode.
I have found/seen the button for 'Follow Topic', so have activated it, in the hope I will receive email alerts.

I was not notified of your replies (and they were in neither Trash, nor Spam), so tried some things before I saw them. The MEP icon still appears in the systray, so it must be launching with Windows, but the hotkeys now have effects that differ from the ones set in MEP. I did do what I thought was a thorough uninstall, rebooted and re-installed; the original macros were still there, so the uninstall can not have been as thorough as I thought. There is NO restoration of the correct effects from the hotkeys. I have learned a lesson about 3rd party Cleaning-up programs. StartUp Manager had a RESTORE option (that I have only just discovered), but there was no option of restoring those deletions (not did they appear after reinstalling MEP), only other things that I did not want restored.

In the Scheduled Tasks list of StartUp Manager, I found five codes listed as 'disabled'; there was an option to delete them, so I deleted four of them. I have since found that Macro Express no longer works, and fear that my deletions may have caused the disablement. Can anyone throw light on this ?
The codes were :
{1C8C8445-3AF3-4DD6-8C02-6694F42FDBE6}
{25E6CB6D-8992-43FF-9440-629929607D3D}
{5D2BF198-67A0-47E7-8C5F-A3524EDD536B}
{79B648AB-D2C7-4CB6-B481-8750BB0C9223}
{EB3B1F34-37CE-4AAC-9491-1B51A99EF057}

I searched the registry in the hope of finding a reference to macros Express, but could not find the ones I deleted there - the last four.

Thank you.

"Applies to: Windows Server (Semi-Annual Channel), Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012"

That leaves me in doubt whether it applies to x32Win10ProV21H1 but no doubt, serious study can bring a solution.

It seems a rather formidable task to fill in the relevant details of

taskkill [/s <computer> [/u [<domain>\]<username> [/p [<password>]]]] {[/fi <filter>] [...] [/pid <processID> | /im <imagename>]} [/f] [/t]

Luckily, I have found a CMD that seems to achieve my aim without having to do the hard yakka you propose.
 

I have a useful program that often does not launch (with Windows, and then not at all). One way around the problem, is to kill its two entries in the Background Processes of Task Manager, and then to relaunch it. I'd like a macro that achieves that, but it's beyond my capacity to devise it. Can anyone help ?

For what it is worth, having used the batch file successfully for a while, the icon on the folder shortcut no longer changes according to content. The problem has gone, and not just for the folders that concerned me, but for all folders.

The icon to the right of top left is suitable - and achieved by adding 'right arrow' after 'home'.