Here's a neat little program...

[Todd H]

I use a program called Batchrun that let's you run programs and batch files in sequential order.  It will run the first program and won't run the second one until the first one is finished.  One good use is to have it run a program to hide the taskbar, then run a program to hide the mouse cursor, then run your frontend, and finally when the frontend is exited run a batch file that shuts down windows.  The files it creates can be placed in the startup folder so it runs when windows boots.  That way you never have to touch a keyboard or mouse.  Just do a search for Batchrun and you should be able to find it.

[EndTwist]

Heres a direct link: http://ftp.pcworld.com/pub/new/utilities/file_management/btrun410.zip

It's a great program, I just tried it! Works exactly as it says it does.

Heres a side note:
To turn off the status window that pops up when you run one of the batch files, do this:
1. Settings > Show > Uncheck "progress when processing batchfiles"
2. Settings > Show > Uncheck "messages when processing batchfiles"


It's a nice program, take a look!

[Todd H]

Thanks for the link.  I was going to post it but couldn't remember it and was in a hurry.

[Popcorrin]

What would be the difference of using this program and just putting a link to mamewah in the startup folder?

[Spaced Invader]

What would be the difference of using this program and just putting a link to mamewah in the startup folder?

It...

let's you run programs and batch files in sequential order.  It will run the first program and won't run the second one until the first one is finished.  One good use is to have it run a program to hide the taskbar, then run a program to hide the mouse cursor, then run your frontend, and finally when the frontend is exited run a batch file that shuts down windows.

Some people ME find it useful to do some setup/housecleaning before the FE starts and after it closes. Its not something you HAVE to use. It's just helpful to...somepeople!

[Jakobud]

You mention programs to hide/show taskbar and/or mouse cursor.  Can you point me to these programs?

[Spaced Invader]

Ok... hide cursor (shareware):

http://www.softexe.com/cursorhider.html

Hide taskbar (freeware):

http://home4.inet.tele.dk/mbresson/tbhide/index.html

There are probably more; this is just what I know of.