In a discussion around the EDTracker yesterday NeilF reminded me of the mild annoyance around forgetting to start a peripheral program that you might want to run before getting into the game (VoiceAttack, Lasse B's EDTracker reset app, video capture apps or whatever). I thought I would share my solution just in case others wanted a hint in that direction.
You can fire up multiple applications in one go by having them launch from a simple Windows batch file. Open Notepad, enter your commands that you want run and then save the file with a .bat file extension.
e.g. I have Elite.bat with the following contents
Following the 'start' command the '/d' tells it the following is the directory to start from and then you have the command to launch (.exe name).
I have this saved as Elite.bat on my desktop.
You can leave it there and it works, or a nice next step is to create a shortcut to the batch file which you can then give a custom icon if, like me, you find the standard icon too dark.
The advantage of this is that when the launcher gets updated you don't need to reassign a new icon again.
N.B. I know in the past I found that sometimes notepad would append a .txt on the end of a saved file in an attempt to be clever. If clicking on the file you created just opens it you'll need to check that you can see file extensions and remove the unwanted text from the file name.
You can fire up multiple applications in one go by having them launch from a simple Windows batch file. Open Notepad, enter your commands that you want run and then save the file with a .bat file extension.
e.g. I have Elite.bat with the following contents
Code:
start /d "C:\Program Files (x86)\VoiceAttack\" VoiceAttack.exe
start /d "C:\EDLaunch\" EDLaunch.exeI have this saved as Elite.bat on my desktop.
You can leave it there and it works, or a nice next step is to create a shortcut to the batch file which you can then give a custom icon if, like me, you find the standard icon too dark.
The advantage of this is that when the launcher gets updated you don't need to reassign a new icon again.
N.B. I know in the past I found that sometimes notepad would append a .txt on the end of a saved file in an attempt to be clever. If clicking on the file you created just opens it you'll need to check that you can see file extensions and remove the unwanted text from the file name.