[Dark_Slayer]

Okay, so the "Quick" part of "QuickWMC" is a bit of a stretch.

You really can't get the starting of wmc to be much faster, that's just how long it takes to start up (at least I got rid of the start-up animation). There is an earlier post in this thread where a user said they were using event ghost to start the shortcut instead of advanced launcher, I doubt its much faster but I don't think you will get the dos window anymore.

I can't expect many to want to devote much time to this, but the dos prompt isn't an "Advanced Launcher Necessity"

Krusty, I've been watching this thread with anticipation, and can't wait for the PVR playback woes in XBMCs player to become streamlined. My primary HTPC doubles as a server, and after a 3 month trial run of NPVR/XBMC/Comcast, I've switched back to WMC. I've been using the QuickWMC version you have posted in this thread (linked from your skydrive).

I'm not really sure how the program arguments are accepted, but I notice that if I click the actual "QuickWMC" application that I get the error "at least one arg must be given"

I've spent some time getting RCB working with my emulators (with a lot of help from the thread) but it's very similar to Advanced Launcher when launching command line programs. Here are some examples of emulator configs

Most of the time you can avoid the dos prompt

I messed around with the advanced launcher configs for a while and can't get the dos prompt out. There are a few options

1. Add each *lnk* as it's own launcher
   
2. Configure the launcher as a "standalone" rather than "files list"
   
3. Or add the set as a files list with QuickWMC.exe as the launcher
   
4. Then have AL scan for all the *lnk in whatever directory they are stored in
   

You can also add separate standalone launchers using the same file repeatedly (QuickWMC.exe) but give it additional command line args behind "%rom%" (more typical)

I checked the properties of each link, and RecordedTV (for example) shows it's target and recordedtv at the end separated by a space.

Advanced Launcher should be able to parse this (without the annoying command prompt) if your command args are either

1. "%ROM%" recordedtv
   
2. "%ROM% recordedtv"
   
3. "%ROM%" -recordedtv
   
4. %ROM% recordedtv
   

I tried all of those, and using "%ROM% recordedtv" works but doesn't actually push through. It opens some bizarre WMC shell without the actual Recorded TV page or menu. Exiting takes you back (as normal)

The other method of setting the entire *lnk directory as a files list using QuickWMC.exe as a launcher also works without the command prompt, but it delivers the same "empty" WMC shell.

The real pain is that a simple command line check of the full path separated by a single space from "recordedtv" (without quotes) launches everything just fine. For some unknown reason, I can't get Advanced Launcher to use that arg. If you select a LNK as a standalone then you'll continue getting the DOS prompt (even though after the short annoyance everything works)

Anyone know why? I'll also send Angelscry a PM