how can i open one program, making it open another

shorty28898

is that at all possible? i mean im sure it is becuase winamp does it, and opens evil lyrics up. But does any one know a way that i can open one porgram up, making another open up? like for instance, open itunes, and evil lyrics opens with it.. ??

Armo

a batch file can do it. with the CALL function. like this

CALL "C:\Program Files\Winamp\Winamp.exe"

for the webpage, make a shortcut somewhere on your machine so you can call that. and it would be something like

CALL "C:\Document and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\SM.url"

shorty28898

ok, well can you explain like step by step, not to good with this..
so for itunes,(C:\Program Files\itunes\itunes.exe") and evil lyrics (C:\Program Files\evillyrics\evilyrics.exe")
how do i make a batch file, and where do i save it to so everytime itunes opens, evil lyrics will do the same?

Armo

making a batch file is readlly easy. click start->run->notepad

with notepad opne type your code.

CALL "C:\Program Files\itunes\itunes.exe"
CALL "C:\Program Files\evillyrics\evillyrics.exe"

(note: you need the " " if there is a space in the path name)

once you have your code written, select file->save as->in the save as type filed, change is to All Files. in the file names choose nameoffile and .bat at the end so it looks like this

launchPrograms.bat

shorty28898

thankss!!.. but.. now i can only open both if i run the batch file? how can i make it run automatically when i open itunes?

RichD

shorty28898 wrote:

thankss!!.. but.. now i can only open both if i run the batch file? how can i make it run automatically when i open itunes?

You use the batch file instead of ITunes. If you wanted you could change your ITunes shortcut to point to the batch file.