application start running at login, with specified positions for windows

Question

Hello,

Il would like to start some applications when I am logging, and positionning the windows at some specifics places (defined with powertoys if possible).

Is that possible?

Didier

Answer 1

Hi,

You can open task scheduler from start menu and create a task to run the application when the user is logged in. I didn't find a way set the window position in powertoys, however the MoveWindow function could be helpful. You can create a PowerShell script to invoke the function and add the script to the login task.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-movewindow

As MoveWindow is a Win32 function it can be used like this

$MethodDefinition = @'
[DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
public static extern bool MoveWindow(int hWnd, int  X,int  Y, int  nWidth, int  nHeight, bool bRepaint);
'@
$user32 = Add-Type -MemberDefinition $MethodDefinition -Name 'user32' -Namespace 'Win32' -PassThru
$WindowHandle = (Get-Process notepad | Get-ChildWindow).MainWindowHandle | Select-Object -Unique
$user32::MoveWindow($WindowHandle,300,300,1000,1000, $true) 

I used the Get-ChildWindow funtion from the below link to get the window handle.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25369285/how-can-i-get-all-window-handles-by-a-process-in-powershell

Best Regards,

Ian Xue

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