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  1. Two macros can't be run at the same time. Gary Britt
  2. Under HKEY Classes Root there are subkeys for Folder and Drive and Directory. You can place similar commands under these keys to get right click context menus when right clicking on a folder/directory or drive. Gary Brit
  3. Oded, I think the answer is because that is how it works. Here's my guess. When ME displays a popup as name and scope it creates the display using ME and not windows system calls. So it can display the menu and move on. When a system default popup menu is displayed ME has to make calls to the windows API and wait to receive the choice/selection info to be passed back to ME from Windows. Therefore, ME can't move on while the Windows System Default Menu is visible because it has to wait for windows to tell it what selection is made. Can't you just have your helper Macro move the mouse to the location you want before or after you've made your choice on the windows default popup menu? That's what I do. I have it move the mouse both before the popup menu and then after I have made a selection or closed the popup menu. If you really need what you described then you can get there by using another macro program in conjunction with ME. Gary
  4. Oded, its not possible to have the helper macro do anything while the other macro is running. ME doesn't run two macros simultaneously. What I do is have the helper macro take care of a couple of preliminary things then executes the macro run command to call the second macro popup menu. The first macro is suspended while the menu macro is on screen. However, after I make my selection from the menu macro control is returned to the suspended first helper macro and the helper macro then executes a few cleanup commands after the menu macro has ended. If you need two macros to run at the very same time as opposed to one waiting for the other to finish, then you will have to use a different macro program in combination with macro express. Autoit and AutoHotkey are both free and powerful macro programs but they don't have ME's easier to use front end for creating macros. Hope this helps you figure out what to do or answers your question that what you want to do can't be done. Gary
  5. Thanks for the reply. Actually its the windows default style macro express popup menu that I was asking about, and for it (unlike the other "ugly" styles of popup menus) the position coordinates are greyed out for the windows default style ME popup menu. I had a workaround in place but wanted to make sure I wasn't using a workaround for no good reason. What I do is create a helper macro to the popup menu I want to popup. The helper macro gets the hotkey activation, grabs the current mouse position, moves the mouse to the coordinates that are about in the center of the screen, calls macro run to run the popup menu macro and then puts the mouse back where it was after the popup menu macro has finished. You get a warning when you first create a macro that calls a popup menu that this may not work properly for some reason, but so far it works just fine for me. I'd rather do it cleanly and a function built into popup menus to automatically handle the mouse save position, mouse move, mouse return function would be a nice addition to macro express popup menu features I guess. Thanks for the confirmation on this. Gary Britt
  6. Hi, Is there a command or setting somewhere to make a popup menu popup in the middle of the screen instead of where the mouse is located?? Thanks, Gary B
  7. Is the old news server newsgroup still available? If so can you tell me where to point my newsreader so I can access the old newsgroup. Thank you Gary Britt
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