Windows 8 Annoyance (part 3)

If you miss the start button and don't want to bother downloading some third party program, don't be too despair. It is still kinda there: launch it with Windows-X. Good! There are some useful links there.

Another way to get to it is to hover the mouse to the lower left corner, you will see the link to the Start page, and then RIGHT-click. Come on, Microsoft is making you remember non-obvious secret tricks.

A particular useful tool since Windows 3.1 (or earlier, I am not even sure) is the Start->Run prompt. I can launch anything there. Need to launch calculator (or some program where you know the name)? Even when Start button was there you still have to click and hover over a few things to find it, but with Start->Run you can type "calc" and hit Enter. Now you can launch it with Windows-R. But I don't want to learn ANY Windows+key shortcuts.

I want to be able to launch Run dialog without the non-obvious trick of hover the lower-left and right-click, or Windows-R. Ok, VBScript will be my tool here. There seems to be ways to simulate key pressing. Alas, but there seems to be no way to simulate the not-so-standard Windows key. Fortunately there is CreateObject Shell thing that still can be used!

Set app = WScript.CreateObject("Shell.Application")
app.FileRun

So I have another VBS on my desktop that goes to the Run dialog.