OD Shortcut to windows "Run..." Dialog?

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Hi all... simple question I hope.

Am thinking that OD Plus is so cool that I can do away with that pesky windows taskbar...one thing I would love to see on my objectdock though.

I use the Start Menu option "Run..." a lot and can't figure out how to create an object dock shortcut for it.  Well I did find one solution but didn't really like it.

I can ctrl-click the run command and drag a shortcut to the desktop...then drag that shortcut to objectdock effectively creating a shortcut to the shortcut...would rather just go direct if possible.

Any suggestions?

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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

For RUN all you have to do is hit Windows Key + R jwt!

Explorer = Windows Key + E, System Properties = Windows Key + BREAK

It doesn't get any shorter than that!

Cp

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

yeah i stumbled across that... didn't like the feature-set that much O:)

it runs its own 'Run' box and not the windows one...which i guess isn't so bad...but I didn't need all that other stuff.

I figured out one solution by creating a VB-Script:

FileRun.vbs

Code: vbscript
  2. dim objShell
  3. set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
  4. objShell.FileRun
  5. set objShell = nothing

Put that file in "My Documents\Stardock\ObjectDock Library\Commands" (added that Commands directory) and created a shortcut to it...seems to work pretty good.

Only bothers me now that the silly windows run dialog box only pops up in the lower-right corner...and it so happens that my dock ends up laying over it...maybe someone knows if you can change the position of that "Run..." dialog???

I was even considering doing my own docklet...found some code to do it to...

Code: c++
  2.     IShellDispatch* pShellDisp = NULL;
  4.     HRESULT hr = ::CoCreateInstance( CLSID_Shell, NULL, CLSCTX_SERVER, IID_IShellDispatch, (LPVOID *) &pShellDisp );
  6.     if( hr == S_OK )
  7.     {
  8.         pShellDisp->FileRun(); 
  9.         pShellDisp->Release();
  10.         pShellDisp = NULL;
  11.     }
  13.     return ( hr == S_OK );

...got my docklets SDK, got the samples to compile, was all ready to implement this and oops figured out Visual C++ 2008 express doesn't include MFC (ie. afxwin.h) =( ... maybe someone wants to whip me up a docklet??? =)

Thanks, - Jeff

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

yes yes yes cplair =) I knew that was coming =) ... but i really want an OD solution!!!  I am working with a Lenovo (IBM) laptop that has no windows key...and often with a IBM AIX Keyboard that also has no Win-Key... 

Funny is that the shortcut answer popped up in all of the other forums i found where people wanted exactly the same thing =)...plus if we all just wanted shortcuts without optic we wouldn't need OD  XD

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

god i put way too many smilys in that last post...sorry lol

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Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

god i put way too many smilys in that last post...sorry lol

XD  XD XD

Nah!

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