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Any way to make 2 programs open together?

  • 20-05-2012 04:48PM
    #1
    Fionn MacCool
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭


    Is there something I can do so that whenever a particular application is opened, another one is also ran? For example when I open a certain browser, a proxy client is also ran, or when I open uTorrent a certain security program is ran?

    Is there a way to do this, some sort of double-shortcut or batch file I can create? I don't want these programs ran on start-up btw

    Cheers


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  • #2
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Fionn MacCool wrote: »
    Is there something I can do so that whenever a particular application is opened, another one is also ran? For example when I open a certain browser, a proxy client is also ran, or when I open uTorrent a certain security program is ran?

    Is there a way to do this, some sort of double-shortcut or batch file I can create? I don't want these programs ran on start-up btw

    Cheers

    You could make a bat file and save on your desktop, just add the full install paths to the batch file:
    cd ..
    cd ..
    cd ..
    cd Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\
    start winword.exe
    cd ..
    cd ..
    cd ..
    cd Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\
    start msaccess.exe
    etc.
    I think this should work fine, just type the locations in notepad, save (choose "All Files" instead of text file *.txt) and call it open utorrent.bat or whatever
    Edit: Just made a sample batch script that will do it (tested), use cd .. to go back a dir

    Nick

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  • #3
    deconduo
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 4,282 Mod ✭✭✭✭deconduo


    yoyo wrote: »
    You could make a bat file and save on your desktop, just add the full install paths to the batch file:

    etc.
    I think this should work fine, just type the locations in notepad, save (choose "All Files" instead of text file *.txt) and call it open utorrent.bat or whatever
    Edit: Just made a sample batch script that will do it (tested), use cd .. to go back a dir

    Nick

    Why the cd .. command? Just use it like this:
    cd "C:\Windows"
    start notepad.exe
    cd "D:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox"
    start firefox.exe
    cd "C:\Users\deconduo\Documents"
    start program.exe

    Put it in a notepad file and save as 'xxxx.bat' You can then put it anywhere and it will work fine.


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