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I'm trying to make a PowerShell script to launch programs after I boot up my machine. I'm taking things out of the registry's "run" area and putting them in the script in the order that I want and after inserting some delays for items that are not important to run immediately. This is the code to start Outlook for instance:
# Outlook
Start-Sleep -s 10
Invoke-Item "c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\OUTLOOK.EXE"
That works for paths that do not have a switch, but I can't get it to work if there is a switch involved. For example this is the launch command for Windows Live Messenger:
c:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe /background
So the spaces also cause some problems. I've tried this:
#Start-Sleep -s 10
$test= {"c:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe"}
Invoke-Item $test /background
but that doesn't work either.
Any ideas?