Invalid Procedure or Call

Hey NEwbie here,

I am trying to add a button to excel to open device manager and tried this however I get a "invalid call or procedure" error. Please advise. thanks

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Originally Posted by AutomationBoy

I was looking for an answer to the same problem. When I searched for an answer the only hits I found were to the questions, but no answers. So after I researched what a .msc file was and realized what it took to launch it, I answered one of them for future reference.

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while Device Manager is running, check PROCESS LIST for the name, and then search for the file location. You can look up how to shell that call from Excel

It looks correct, mmc.exe is running and devmgmt.msc is in the system32 folder

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try

Code:

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Shell "devmgmt.msc"

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with the full path

I tried the following, but still the same error:
Code:
Sub Open_Device_Mgr()
Dim RetValue As Long
Shell "C:\WINDOWS\system32\devmgmt.msc"
'RetValue = Shell("C:\WINDOWS\system32\mmc.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\devmgmt.msc")
End Sub

try it with CMD.exe first. Might need the flag to keep it open

yep, thats the one. thanks for your help