Need to start Outlook after a batch file has run....

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......so I put the actual call to Outllook at the end of the batch file.
Everything works EXCEPT the cmd window doesn't close until I close Outlook.
I even tried putting a cls above and below the outlook call (think that
maybe there was some text showing up that I didn't notice).

The reason for doing this is that I need to guarantee that certain issues
get taken care of PRIOR to Outlook starting.

TIA

cls
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE" /recycle
cls
 
What does "it didn't work" mean? Do you get an error? Do you get
unexpected behavior? What command did you enter?
 
start "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE /recycle"
just starts another dos window (same as Start>Run>cmd.exe).

start "%allusersprofile%\Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft Outlook.lnk"
just does the same thing as above.
 
The first argument of START is the title of the window to launch.
START /?:
START ["title"] [/Dpath] [/I] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/SEPARATE | /SHARED]
[/LOW | /NORMAL | /HIGH | /REALTIME | /ABOVENORMAL | /BELOWNORMAL]
[/WAIT] [/B] [command/program]


Try:

start "" "d:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE" /recycle

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Ray at work
Microsoft ASP MVP
 
Thanks.

Usually the brackets indicate OPTIONAL and therefore I didn't think the
title was required.

This worked:
start "" "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE" /recycle

Ray at said:
The first argument of START is the title of the window to launch.
START /?:
START ["title"] [/Dpath] [/I] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/SEPARATE | /SHARED]
[/LOW | /NORMAL | /HIGH | /REALTIME | /ABOVENORMAL | /BELOWNORMAL]
[/WAIT] [/B] [command/program]


Try:

start "" "d:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE" /recycle

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Ray at work
Microsoft ASP MVP




RDI said:
start "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE /recycle"
just starts another dos window (same as Start>Run>cmd.exe).

start "%allusersprofile%\Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft Outlook.lnk"
just does the same thing as above.

"Ray at <%=sLocation%> [MVP]" <myFirstNameATlane34dotKOMM> wrote in message
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RDI said:
Usually the brackets indicate OPTIONAL and therefore I didn't think the
title was required.

This worked:
start "" "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE" /recycle
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It's sort-of optional--if you don't use quotes, it uses the first
non-switch argument as the program to run or file to open.

Compare

start "notepad"
start notepad

I'm not saying that makes much sense, though.
 
Open a command prompt window and type:

start

(In XP at least) This will open another cmd window, as if %comspec% is the
default command argument.

I am not sure which is better - to get another window, or to get an error
message. I guess it depends on how often you want to open up multiple
command windows from a command prompt.


/Al

Ray at said:
It's really odd that the command argument is optional, I think. ?

Ray at work
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I think that I'd prefer the error and have to use "start cmd" to open a new
cmd window, but I guess I'll live with the way it is until I write my own
operating system. ;]
 
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