Re: ``Your Pop-Up Program is Ready''

de hummingbird 05/12/2006 11:15

On Fri, 12 May 2006 12:29:13 -0500 'Howard Schwartz'
posted this onto alt.comp.freeware:

>This starts the infamous message one reads when a dos box does not close,
>and requires you to hit Ctrl-C to close the window.
>
>The MS knowledge base tells you this happens, when windows detects an
>operation like direct disk writes that it believes is associated with
>a dos TSR program. It then sets a flag, stops taking input from the
>dos windows, and requires the Ctrl-C from your keyboard to close
>the window.
>
>The recommended workaround is to create a batch file containing:
>
> command.com /C
>
>And type the name of this file in the ``batch file'' field of a pif or
>shortcut tab (which one sees by choosing Properties). This does not
>work for me, and I never really understood how the separate fields of
>``command line'' and ``batch file'' of a shortcut function. Is the
>batch file run, prior to the command, to provide a specific dos environment
>or some special variables for the command? In what order are these two
>run?

IIRC there is a place in PIF to enter a program path to run before
the PIF DOS proggy is run. You should enter the batch path/name there.

Then, when you run the PIF, the batch will be run first before the
DOS program and 'command.com /c' will be active.

A better place to ask this question is NG "alt.msdos" - there's some
real DOS experts thereabouts.

>Anyone have another way to stop this annoying message ``Your pop-up menu --
>'' ? The trick seems to be to automatically send a close or kill signal for
>a dox box, but not from within that box!