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I thought this may be useful to others on here;

I've been trying to figure out a reliable way to launch and switch applications with my harmony remote configured as an MCE keyboard. the F4 shortcut option seemed unreliable so I have now started using a program call Autohotkey.

Its brilliant.

I can now run a macro from a single button press that does everything I want. For me this was to use one button to switch from XBMC to WMC and vice versa whilst also shutting down the inactive program.

I wrote some simple logic as follows for an Autohotkey macro using the 'Vertical Bar' key as per below

~::
IfWinExist XBMC
{
winclose XBMC
run E:\other\Desktop\Media Center.lnk
}
else
{
winclose Windows Media Center
run E:\other\Desktop\XBMC.lnk
}

This works great and ultra reliable so far. Note for the above I dragged both the xmnc and wmc links to the desktop for ease of use. Check out the quick start guide for autohotkey here http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Tutorial.htm and make sure you put the macro file in your startup folder to kick it off at startup. Putting the system to sleep does not affect this.