Thread: How to run another program when Winamp is the Shell?

you can run a btch file from memory as the shell, thus you could load two or more programs from the batch file.... that should solve the problem.

dont know about good clock proggies.... if I had a need for one I would code it myself in VB6, get the look/feel exactly how I would want it..

Ya, swipe the clock prog from Win3.1. Win95 supports legacy apps, I'd imagine Win98 and other versions do, too.

I am having a problem with this, I am actually trying to do it on my Win2k machine in my house. It works fine except that after it loads the first thing then winamp, the focus is removed from the command screen and it wont exit properly leaving me with the black box still there, is there a command to make it return and exit?
Note: it isn't a clock I am trying to run.
Any ideas?

as I recall, there is a "wait" command... it will run a certain line, and wait for that function to finish, then it will proceed to execute the rest of the batch file.

it's been soo long that I can't remember how to implement that command, but I bet you could find it somewhere on the net.

edit: oh wait, that's not what you're asking (it's late).. how about just adding an "exit" line at the end?

Good luck,
-Miles

[ 02-10-2002: Message edited by: milesg ]

Well I have an exit at the end of it... and without winamp loading (just oading on program) it does close out and go away, or I found out if winamp is called but already loaded it will go away, otherwise it just sits there. (the used command prompt) I need this to run whenever I click the batch file... so I don't understand how I could use the registry to do that. I couldn't find anything that might help on the web, but I will try again later.