Small script request (shrotcut target different depending on time of day)

Van Hellseek · 5 Oct 2019 at 00:03

Hey guys.

I was wondering if anyone who knew programming could write me a small script (Win7+Win10)?

Basically I have two near-identical folders each with an exe. And I want one shortcut on my desktop which, when clicked, will check the time of day, and if it's 8am-8pm it will launch the exe from folder "A", and if the time is outside of those hours it will launch the exe from folder "B".

Hopefully that's pretty simple (I honestly have no idea, please just ignore the request if it's a lot to ask!).

Cheers.

Van Hellseek · 5 Oct 2019 at 14:53

Thanks much. But how would I go about using that exactly?

I tried targetting the script, but all that happens is it opens an empty notepad file.

Van Hellseek · 6 Oct 2019 at 02:25

Ok my bad. Heh *facedesk*. It works fine.

Although... having said that, I'm still having trouble with the paths. I use double backslashes as mentioned, but get the following error;

Code:

Line: 7
Char: 4
Error: The system cannot find the file specified.
Code: 80070002
Source: (null)

The path is definitely correct. Example;

Code:

WshShell.Run("C:\\Program Files\\example\\blah.exe");

What could be causing the problem?

Van Hellseek · 6 Oct 2019 at 13:09

Using singe backslashes didn't work either.

For the record my two folders aren't on my desktop, they're in Program Files > MyFolder > Folder A/B

Van Hellseek · 6 Oct 2019 at 18:56

Copy/pasted it from shortcut properties and added the double backslash, as instructed.

Van Hellseek · 7 Oct 2019 at 00:39

Thanks a lot for the help.

Forgive my noobishness, but wouldn't that method depend on both exe files being in the same folder?
If so, what I'm trying to do makes that impossible.