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Micha
Micha

Reputation: 383

Is it possible to send a shell command from a registry value

I have a wireless remote for windows. For one of the buttons it will open windows media player. The registry entry that controls this is

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AppKey\16]
"Association"=".cda"

I removed changed "Association"=".cda" to "Association"="" to disable the button.

I would like to however associate this button with closing an exe called mph-hc64.exe instead. Is it possible to put a shell command as the value instead? I see another appkey to open the calculator is

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AppKey\18]
"ShellExecute"="calc.exe"

which I am guessing is utilizing a shell command to start calc.exe. So could something like a SendMessage() WM_CLOSE of sort be used to close calc.exe or any other process running for that matter?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 379

Answers (1)

Micha
Micha

Reputation: 383

I just ended up using nircmd to handle the issue. I changed the registry key value to "ShellExecute"="C:\\Program Files\\nircmd.exe closeprocess mpc-hc64.exe"

Problem solved

Upvotes: 1

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