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That's basically it, I'm using NTX's Scout and Lock Screen as a replacement for Launchy and win10's lock screen, and I want to be able to load it from running a program. I don't want to write an AHK script. The directories get weird with multiple .ini skin files when I try to use AHK. How can I do this?

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    Does this work? https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=20890#p111427 Using a Windows shortcut instead of AHK – MC10 Jan 27 '20 at 23:26
  • It would work, but I'm using this dock: https://www.deviantart.com/not-finch/art/Interactive-Dock-for-Rainmeter-772713805 and it only allows me to launch .exe files from it, not other skins or shortcuts. I'll look around in the skin's code and see if there's a way I can set it up to launch a skin if I cant somehow compile that skin into a program somehow. – RudRecciah Jan 28 '20 at 15:35
  • Perhaps you could put the code in a batch file and see if that works. If not, convert batch to exe: https://superuser.com/questions/868340/how-can-i-convert-a-windows-batch-script-to-a-exe – MC10 Jan 28 '20 at 17:23
  • ok, so i was about to try your idea and found that the ExitApp command for AHK exists so i've decided to go with the following AHK script: ```Run, C:\Program Files\Rainmeter\Rainmeter.exe !ToggleConfig "NXT-OS\Scout" "Scout.ini" ExitApp``` Thanks for the help though! – RudRecciah Jan 28 '20 at 21:25

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In the end I ended up using AHK and made 

Run,
C:\Program Files\Rainmeter\Rainmeter.exe !ToggleConfig "NXT-OS\Scout" "Scout.ini"
ExitApp

but if anyone sees this and dosen't want to use AHK but use a shortcut, you can make a shortcut to the skin itself with the directory looking like this:

"$drive:\$folder\Rainmeter\Rainmeter.exe" !ToggleConfig "$skinpath" "$skin.ini"
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