Greetings, Paul Maier! > When I start a run.exe command manually, it hides fine both, the window and > the task bar entry; > but I have 3 scripts containing run.exe commands in the Windows startup > (autostart) folder, and there one (only one) script brings up an unwanted > entry in the task bar (the window itself is fine invisible). It is always > another one out of the 3 scripts, but each time at most one (i. e. zero or 1 > unwanted entries). > Since I start a server here, that task bar entry stays there all day (and of > course there is no visible window attachted to it), and if I select close, I > also shut down the server by this.
What exactly is in your scripts, and in the links in StartUp dir? > This seems a racing condition to me: This seems to be a wrong link/improperly designed script for me. Or a use of a wrong tools for the task. > If I disconnect the internet LAN cable (then the evaluation of possible > connections is much faster) _or_ if I move my mouse up and down right after > Windows login to make the task bar appear and disappear some times, then all > autostart run.exe scripts hide their task bar entries fine. > I have never seen more than 1 such unwanted task bar entry appearing. The > first one seems to initialize the environment somehow, so that the other > run.exe instances work as expected. > I also added a 4th script: > run /bin/sleep 10, > That improved the situation in a way, that unwanted task bar entries were > less likely to happen, but they still came then and when. > It worked fine with the run.exe that I downloaded 1 year ago. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 22.07.2012, <18:03> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple