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<blockquote data-quote="irishrally" data-source="post: 879871" data-attributes="member: 126635">Hi, thanks for your detailed response. Before you responded I uninstalled MP, reinstalled, and the external player opened properly. At the moment I'm only playing movie files that I want to use with MPC-HC. When my collection builds with different files types I'll definitely try your code.&nbsp;Also, thanks for the heads up about Autohotkey. I downloaded it to check it out and decided I could use it as a way to create a keyboard shortcut to launch MP. I'm using a Harmony remote with an HP IR receiver and have it set up as a MCE Keyboard. I can't map a command like ctrl-alt-M for instance because I can't get my remote to learn that command without an IR keyboard. So, I decided to use autohotkey to map &quot;!&quot; to open MP. I set up an additional button on the Harmony remote that says &quot;Launch MP&quot; and it just outputs a &quot;!&quot; keypress. The script works as intended. The problem I'm having now is getting the script to run when Windows starts so I can launch MP with my remote after a reboot without manually running the script first. I put a shortcut to the .ahk script in the start menu folder (right clicked on &quot;all programs&quot; and clicked &quot;open all users&quot;. The script does not run when windows starts. I used the default template and just added:&nbsp;!::Run C:\Program Files (x86)\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal.exe&nbsp;Do I need to add a delay command to get it to run during startup?&nbsp;Sorry about getting off-topic a bit here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="irishrally, post: 879871, member: 126635"] Hi, thanks for your detailed response. Before you responded I uninstalled MP, reinstalled, and the external player opened properly. At the moment I'm only playing movie files that I want to use with MPC-HC. When my collection builds with different files types I'll definitely try your code. Also, thanks for the heads up about Autohotkey. I downloaded it to check it out and decided I could use it as a way to create a keyboard shortcut to launch MP. I'm using a Harmony remote with an HP IR receiver and have it set up as a MCE Keyboard. I can't map a command like ctrl-alt-M for instance because I can't get my remote to learn that command without an IR keyboard. So, I decided to use autohotkey to map "!" to open MP. I set up an additional button on the Harmony remote that says "Launch MP" and it just outputs a "!" keypress. The script works as intended. The problem I'm having now is getting the script to run when Windows starts so I can launch MP with my remote after a reboot without manually running the script first. I put a shortcut to the .ahk script in the start menu folder (right clicked on "all programs" and clicked "open all users". The script does not run when windows starts. I used the default template and just added: !::Run C:\Program Files (x86)\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal.exe Do I need to add a delay command to get it to run during startup? Sorry about getting off-topic a bit here. [/QUOTE]

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