Recent content by thomasmcgeown

thank you for your help vanvb, id like to do this myself tho, a combination of being to proud to admit defeat and knowing that a decent challange will improve my abilities more than taking an easier route! Thanks again for your suggestion! Tom

for anyone who was interested.. seems this is impossible using the WIN32_Process class, its made non interactive for security reasons apparently, guess it makes some sort of sence. gonna try and do it by creating a scheduled task with a small amount of time added to the system time.

*bump* no one got any suggestions?

Hi, Im trying to create a process on a remote computer, however i dont want the process to be hidden, i.e if the process is notpad.exe then i want a notepad to open on the remote computer. However my current code just runs the process and does not show the window. MINIMIZED_WINDOW is a...

"I misread your original post, the problem is that visual basic cannot recognise the copy command from shell." ^^ does anyone have a list of commands that can and cant be sent to shell to save me this hassle in the future?!

matt king - no, e: is a local drive andy watt- cant remember, i think not as i didnt use it as a solution - will try again to satisfy your curiosity :)

well that method works fine.. /me scratches his head some more cheers all for your help!

unbeliveably.. exactly the same error!

Got it working, not an ideal solution by any means but did it by creating a batch file then running that from shell.. will slow my code down a hell of a lot when it has a list of machines to run the code on i think, never mind eh! Set txtTryingBat = fso.createtextfile(App.Path &...

returns correct paths for both source and destination as follows: copy "e:\nettools\vncinstall\winvnc.exe" "\\tomm\c$\program files\realvnc\winvnc\winvnc.exe" the above is also the exact line I use succesfully at a command prompt

it is blank, but that will be because it is unable to complete that line of code.. surely...

ill give it a try, but i dont see why shell would need to reference the vb fso, a far as vb is concerned there just strings, no file access is done until shell takes over... the command works fine if i run it manually from cmd

i am domain admin and im testing it on my local machine, so its not permisions either..

strRemotePush = "\\" & strSelected & "\C$\Program Files\RealVNC\WinVNC\" - so not that!

I would use WMI - try modifying this code i wrote for creating registry keys '*************** Set Registry Values *************** strNewKey = "Software\MYNewKey\" strMethodCreateKey = "CreateKey" Set objRegistry =...