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[arethinn]

Does anyone know of a way to create a shortcut which selects a particular option from the context menu? I've installed a program called VDMS which emulates older sound cards therefore enabling me to play all my old Sierra games (and with the Roland MT-32 sound to boot, heheh), and the way it works best is by selecting "Run with VDMS" from the context menu when right-clicking the game's .exe. I've tried creating a batch file which first invokes VDMS and then the game file, but this doesn't seem to work as VDMS pauses in the command window (the idea being that the user would be manually starting the game if manually starting VDMS), so it never gets to the second line of the batch file. (enotsola thought there might be a way to force it to skip the pause and go on anyway, but couldn't remember how.) Any help?

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[enotsola]

curses! I missed you by minutes!

Not that this comment is in any way useful, or related to this post at all, really. Aside from the timestamp, that is.

[digitalsidhe.livejournal.com]

I may be able to help, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to explain this at a distance. Tell you what, could you do this:

Start, Run, type "regedit".
Go to the key \HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile
Select Registry, Export Registry File.
Enter some name for the file, leaving the "export range" radio button set to "selected branch".
Exit regedit.

Then either email me that file, or just open it up with Notepad and post the results in your LJ. (Depending on how public you want this data to be. FWIW, I can't imagine any way an attacker could use it against you. But paranoia rarely hurts where computer security is concerned. Your call.)

Basically, I'm trying to see what command string gets run for "Run with VDMS". If we can dupe that into the target of a shortcut, it may be possible to make this work.

[arethinn]

It seems to be executing a pif in its own directory - the value of the key for "run with vdms" under exefile is:

"%VDMSPath%\VDMSRun.pif" %1

where I assume %1 is the variable name for whatever exe is being run. Using this line before the exe or bat of the game in question in the bat file (to which I would point thr shortcut) gave... interesting... results. (cursor doing a little square dance in the dos box.. it was odd) I think there must be something wrong with my syntax.