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I want a program to open when I visit a specific URL in Internet Explorer. I feel like there should be a way to do this using the task scheduler, but it's not working for me.
For example, when a person visits Google, I want that to trigger Adobe Photoshop to open.
If I click "Run" in task scheduler, Photoshop opens. But if I open IE and go to Google, nothing happens. What am I missing? Screenshots can be seen at the links below.
http://sbstraining.org/trigger.PNG http://sbstraining.org/action.PNG
Stephen
Posted 2015-03-27T19:26:22.113
Reputation: 1
Asiis it's not working because IE doesn't log each URL visited into that log that you're trying to use as a trigger. – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2015-03-27T19:29:38.213
How would I make this work then? – Stephen – 2015-03-27T19:37:30.097
Dunno -- You'll probably need something that monitors IE so it knows which URL you're currently looking at. – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2015-03-27T19:39:28.393
I'd say that you best bet here is going to be to use AutoHotKey. It can monitor the Window Title of IE and launch an application when the title changes to something like, 'Google - Internet Explorer'. I'll leave the rest to you to figure out because this is something that I doubt many people will really want to do and (in most cases) it is not the best way to do this. I'd say that you'd be even better off if you could think of a way of describing what you need to happen; instead of how you want it to happen. – krowe2 – 2015-03-27T20:42:57.313
Ok. Thanks everyone for the quick replies. It sounds like there isn't a way to launch it based on a URL. Could I launch another program simultaneously then when another program opens? In other words, when Internet Explorer opens, then open Photoshop also? – Stephen – 2015-03-27T21:45:36.570