Am currently working on a business process automation software and literally user actions are simulated by robots. I need to pass some information to the start menu of my windows 7 and i was wondering if the windows start menu could be opened using a powershell script? As the information to open a powershell can be understood by the robots. Please any suggestions would be nice.
Windows – Open the start menu using Powershell
powershellstart-menuwindows 7
Best Answer
Yes, it is possible using a little VB.
Copy this code into Notepad, and save as
startmenu.vbs
. [Make sure it doesn't get saved as startmenu.vbs.txt]Then, you can just run it with
cscript C:\somefilepath\startmenu.vbs
.(Obviously, you'll have to specify the path where you save it to)
Or, translated to a Powershell solution:
Which can be further shortened to: