WinBatch® Technical Support Forum

All Things WinBatch => WinBatch => Topic started by: jfrasier on August 19, 2013, 01:30:10 PM

Title: Error message when .exe is run
Post by: jfrasier on August 19, 2013, 01:30:10 PM
I wrote a script and compiled it. Put it in the user's startup folder and every time it starts, the error, "You are attemping to open a file of type 'Application Extension' (.DLL). If I don't do anything when the error comes up, it works anyway, but the box with the error remains. I do have a wbdmb44i.dll that appeared in that same folder when I first ran the .exe.

Title: Re: Error message when .exe is run
Post by: Deana on August 19, 2013, 02:41:29 PM
Please provide some of the following specifics:

Title: Re: Error message when .exe is run
Post by: jfrasier on August 19, 2013, 03:46:23 PM
Winbatch version 2013b
Windows XP
Compiler - large
c:\documents and settings\zminnie\start menu\programs\startup

At one point I was running it from c:\jcpl in the registry RUN key. That didn't work either.

Thanks.
Title: Re: Error message when .exe is run
Post by: ....IFICantBYTE on August 19, 2013, 05:34:13 PM
Put it somewhere else. Make a shortcut to it, and only have this shortcut in the Startup folder.... that should launch the exe on startup and not try to run the dll
Title: Re: Error message when .exe is run
Post by: jfrasier on August 20, 2013, 08:15:33 AM
Thanks. That fixed it.

Jane