laffin_boy Posts: 14 21/07/2023	laffin_boy Posts: 14 Using SysMenu I've built a "Troubleshooting Tools" "disk" to be able to work on other computers. When I do so I want to begin by loading my normal desktop environment ( since an as-installed Windoze desktop is just about worthless). And, once again, I have a problem with paths. (1) I built a "Startup.cmd" file for the 6 apps I want to load - trying ".\Sysmenu|\App\App.exe" and "#:\SysMenu\App\App.exe" for paths but when SysMenu passes these paths to CMD and CMD reads the file it doesn't have a drive to start from so it's lost. And I can't specify a drive in advance. (2) So instead of pointing SM to an existing CMD file I used SM's own command option. I linked all 6 commands together (with " & ") on a single line. But that only starts 4 of the six apps because SM appears to have a string length limit for entering commands. My full single line command is 381 characters long but if I attempt to "scroll" to the end of the line it only shows about 2/3 of it so I assume that there's some internal limit that cuts off the end of my command. So how can I manually (no autostart) start up the 6 apps I want with one click?
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1347 21/07/2023	Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1347 Your first attempt is correct. If you don't want to use Autoexec and want to execute a single application to start other six, your option is to perfect the Startup.cmd file. Anyway SyMenu (not SysMenu...) is in charge of starting Startup.cmd and, in that context, it's able to use a relative path (.\) or the universal unit path (#:\). But what Startup.cmd does after that moment is no more a SyMenu business. So inside Startup.cmd you can't use for sure #:\ I suggest you to work with relative path but you need to calculate the relative path starting from the working folder of Startup.cmd Example SyMenu\ProgramFiles\Start\Startup.cmd SyMenu\ProgramFiles\P1\Prog1.exe SyMenu\ProgramFiles\P2\Prog2.exe If you start Startup.cmd with working folder .\ (its same folder) you can reach the two programs this way ..\P1\Prog1.exe ..\P2\Prog2.exe Hope this helps and please report the outcome.
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laffin_boy Posts: 14 22/07/2023	laffin_boy Posts: 14 Thanks. Here's my SyMenu folder structure: .\SyMenu\x64\Category\App\app.exe and .\SyMenu\x64\Startup\Load_Desktop.cmd so once I changed the entries in my "Load_Desktop.com to: start ..\System\File_Sys\XYPlorer\XYplorer.exe start ..\Desktop\ClipCache\ClipCache_x64.exe etc Then everything worked like it does in the movies. In other words by using ".." in front of the address the command program is told to move back up one directory level - to the "x64" folder - from where it can now find the path to all of the apps. My problem here was understanding what the command program's working folder was - which has to do, I think, with how SyMenu "hands over" the cmd file to CMD.exe. BTW, sorry about renaming your program. SyMenu never made sense to me so I just decided that it should be SysMenu and in the process of doing so I managed to convince myself that the program was named SysMenu. ;^)
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