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Old Aug 31st, 2004, 11:28 PM   #3
FoCaL
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Thanks for the ideas, I follow what your saying. However, what you mentioned is basically what Im doing in VB. The problem Im coming across is not if my script runs in the background, everything it does happens in the background as well. So when it starts power point, its a background process.

Ill go over what I have coded again quickly.

On my computer I run the program
It prompts me to pick my power point file
Once the file is selected it stopps the power point process on the remote computers
Now it copies the power point to the remote computers renaming the file to a standard convention and overwriting the old one

Thats what I have done so far and that obviously in laymens terms. My next step is to start power point remotely, since the script is running on my computer. Ive gotten it to work, it will start power point. However, as I stated above it starts as a background process and you cannot see it on the console. Ive done some reserch and found out a method that is supposed to make it start in the forground, but I cant get it to work right. Im at home now, when I get in to work tomorrow Ill post that code.

Thanks for the idea and help. I would not mind seeing some Python code. Right now Im at the point where if it works Ill use it. Thanks again
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