I am currently building an application that controls mouse and other important windows shortcuts through a modified joystick in order to be used by handicapped. The problem is application is temporally suspended when UAC dialog is shown. Knowing that my program isn't triggering the UAC prompt, it's that anything that triggers it causes his app to halt processing.
i.e. I cannot control mouse cursor through joystick when the computer is in any secure desktop (such as UAC, CTRL + ALT + DEL, etc.)
Is there any way to keep the application running without suspension just like windows accessibility programs such as narrator, on screen keyboard and so on?
I have tried disabling windows secure desktop from regedit but there no much change. I know that I can disable UAC completely but I don't want to do so.
Thanks in advance.
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Docker Desktop is running, but it is not showing up in the system tray (a bug I assume?). How can I shut it down? I see no way to do this via the UX. The only way I've seen to shut it down is via right-clicking the system try icon, but that's not showing up. I could play whack-a-service in Task Manager, but I'm hoping there's a better way.
Overall, I'm not at all impressed with the UX of Docker Desktop. The "modal as a full app element" decision is confusing at best (it took me a while to notice that "X" in the upper right), and the inability to do things like actually shut the service down is frustrating.
We're experiencing problems spying a Citrix window.
Our team is not able to spy the outline of the Citrix application window once it is launched. We tried full-screen, on the desktop, on the laptop, closing all other windows, and numerous other scenarios. I believe that it is because the sign-in is via internet explorer and once the Citrix application is launched, the application detaches from Blue Prism.
We were working to troubleshoot this issue and are trying to set up a separate business object for the Citrix window. Another problem is that we cannot launch the Citrix .exe file because it does not allow us to input any parameters to log-in that way. We’re now looking into saving the Citrix file as an .ica file (see https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX804493).
Does anyone have any suggestions?
You'll need to use Surface Automation techniques in order to interact with applications launched via Citrix. Essentially bitmap mapping.
If you are having difficulty attaching to the citrix window itself, try using a dedicated application like citrix receiver and have Blue Prism launch that application.
You could also try checking the windows process running (.exe) once citrix is launched via IE, and then try attaching to that process.
Good Luck.
Try using System Internals process monitor to make sure you attach the correct application, download it for free from Microsoft
When you work with Citrix it depends on the mode you are using. Some of the windows will actually be separate windows, use the Active Accessibility mode to spy them. Some other "windows" or tabs are only visual and you will need to use the Region mode to interact with them.
You should probably be aware that BP has a known issue not flushing all unused memory until the process is finished. If you have a large scale SA process that requires a lot of image processing, OCR etc. it should be a design consideration.
I have a Windows 7 Ent - 64bit system.
I am stuck in a loop, where the login screen is presented, i enter my network credentials, the welcome spinner is shown, the screen flickers like when resized, then the system goes to logging off screen and then finally goes back to the control alt delete screen.
I cannot get out of that loop for the life of me.
I contacted corp support, he came over and logged in using his login (admin level) and was able to get a desktop up.
The support people are not allowed to access the registry to correct or even look at my users settings, and my user IS NOT AN ADMIN on this machine.
Question is - is there a way to blow away my profile on this machine, or reset my registry branch to that of a new user or something???
i have bitlocker enabled on the drive - so using the emergency boot disks are almost rendered useless...
im stuck, and i dont know where to look....
any ideas would be wonderful
thanks
the admin level user logged in, and turned his back for a moment, and i was able to go in and reset the autologon registry entry...
rebooted,and all is well.
Disconnect Your USB Devices
If you like using all sorts of USB devices such as the mouse, keyboard, speakers, Bluetooth speakers, USB dongles, USB Wi-Fi adapters etc. However, these connected devices might cause the Windows 7 stuck on the welcome screen for a long time issue. Therefore, a common solution to the problem is to disconnect all externally connected devices from your PC.
Disconnect from the Internet
Sometimes Windows 10 gets stuck on the login screen because it's trying to connect to your wireless connection. If your Windows gets stuck on the welcome screen, you should make sure that you are not connected to the internet before proceeding to log in.
Run system checks
In some case, corrupt system files on your computer will cause this problem – stuck on welcome screen Windows 10/8/7. Therefore, to fix the Windows 10 freezes on startup problem, you can use CHKDSK to run some checks on your computer to see if it is the corrupted files that cause your startup problem.Restart Windows Update service
You can try restarting Windows Update service and then rename few files if you still get stuck on welcome screen Windows 10 issue.
Here are the steps:
Step 1. Open command prompt.
Step 2. Type net stop wuauserv in the run dialogue and press Enter.
Step 3. Type cd %systemroot% command and press Enter.
Step 4. Type ren SoftwareDistribution SD.old and press Enter.
Step 5. Type net start wuauserv and press Enter.
Step 6. Type exit and press Enter to close Command Prompt and restart your PC.
Step 7. Now, reboot your PC/laptop and check if the stuck on welcome screen has gone.
Restore Windows by using System Restore
System Restore is a useful feature that allows you to restore your operating system to a previous state and fixes any boot problems such as Windows 10 freezes on startup, Windows 7 hangs on welcome screen, etc.
I use Remote Desktop occasionally for some programming tasks but the Alt + Insert keyboard shortcut (cycle through windows) in the client intercepts the default ReSharper generate code shortcut.
Does anyone know if it's possible to remap (or disable) that Remote Desktop keyboard shortcut? I would prefer not to have to remap the ReSharper shortcut if possible.
Figured it out. This problem was when I was not running in full screen mode.
In the Remote Desktop Connection dialog,
Local Resources -> Keyboard = On the remote computer
Now I can use Alt + Insert along with all the other shortcut keys when the Remote Desktop client window is in focus.
I thought it was still intercepting ALT+Page Down and ALT+Page Up.
It turns out it was Skype.
Is it possible to automatically launch an application from a USB flash drive (bypassing windows prompt asking user what he wants to do)? on windows XP or vista.
I looked into "autorun.inf" and "open" entry seems to work only for CD drives for Windows XP SP2+ and Vista. Is it possible to launch program automatically on all windows versions?
I don't care if autorun is disabled by user in Windows settings.
First of all, some people choose to disable autorun for security reasons; but Windows computers up to Vista have it enabled. Edit: Apparently the functionality was removed from Windows 7 onwards.
Put a file named autorun.inf in the root of your USB flash drive. This is what's in mine:
[Autorun]
Open=PStart.exe
Action=Start portable apps
Icon=diskicon.ico
What it does: when you insert this disk, starts PStart.exe
On older computers, the program specified in Open= will launch automatically.
On most modern computers (Windows XP SP2+, Vista), dialog "what do you want to do" will be displayed (for security reasons), but what you have in autorun.inf will display as the selected default, with Icon= as icon and Action= as description. If you want to launch it, just click the "OK" button in the dialog.
So, although I'm not aware of any way to start the application (e.g. PStart) immediately, it is possible to insert flash disk with this configuration and start application by clicking OK.
Tested on different computers, running Windows XP without a SP, also on Windows XP sp 1, sp2, sp3, and on various Vistas (not sure which types, but should work all the way from Vista Home Basic to Vista Enterprise Super-Mega-Premium-Extended Edition) and "Windows 7". Also works on Windows 2000 (although autorun on Win2000 for removable drives is not enabled in default configuration).
Note that some applications, in addition, may trigger the "unknown/unsigned exacutable" security dialog, as if you opened them manually.
Edit: For more details, see also:
Autoplay in Windows XP: Automatically Detect and React to New Devices on a System
I've had something set up on my USB keys for a while now. Using the autorun.inf file will work, depending on your system's settings for autorun. Some disable it altogether after that little debacle with Sony a couple years back installing rootkit software on peoples' machines. Here're a couple articles to check out.
Label a Flash Drive with Your Name and Number
Have Your Lost USB Drive Ask For Help (1) or 2
you need UseAutoplay to let this work on usb.
and if you take ShellExecute instead of open you can also open scripts/documents/...
[Autorun]
ShellExecute=System\something.exe
UseAutoplay=1
there are also U3 usb sticks arround, they will be reconised as cdrom drives in windows.
if you put an a autorun.inf on one of those, it will get executed without the user being questioned.
regards morla
I found the solution in this blog
How To Auto-Launch Apps With A USB Stick [Windows]
It worked fine for me
(the article explains how to do it with AutoIT, a 3rd party app that must be installed on the host computer)