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Start a program on one computer from a different computer.

Remote operation means starting a program on one compuetr from another computer. This is not easy in simple Win95 LAN networks but has been built into Plexel so that it is now easy. Because Plexel can launch external applications and also auto-monitor changes to files in LAN shared full write access folders, it can act as controller for remote operation. Please contact Neuroweb for more information on customising your system.
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The only way I can think of, without buying some remote control software (pcanywhere, carbonCopy,etc) is to use
the task scheduler on pc1. 

Schedule a program (in this case a batch file,runthis.bat) to run every X minutes.
Runthis.bat contains 1 line...
For %%f in (*.xxx) do RunitNow %%f
RunitNow.bat contains...
Type %1 >tmprun.bat
Call tmprun.bat
Del tmprun.bat
Del *.xxx

xxx is an extention of your choosing (recommend you do not use any standard extention).

If PC1 has a shared drive/dir where these batch files exist and you want to have is start a program,
create a file with an extention of xxx in notepad, or any text editor, that has the name of the program you want to
run.
Example file test.xxx (to run Notepad) would have 1 line...
notepad.exe

If you copy this file (test.xxx) to the shared dir on PC1, PC1 will start the program the next time the scheduler
performs is tasks. This is a very crude method and will only start a program, you would not be able to control it in
any way.

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If all you need to do is start it what you can do -  it's a bit of a fiddle so it takes a little time...
                       
If you set up a task on machine 2 to start the program - making sure to use UNC to give the path of the
application ie
\\machine1\c\blah\whatever\directory\appname and set it to start in say 5 minutes, you can then get the task from
the tasks directory on machine 2 and move it to the tasks directory on machine 1 - I suggest setting up a sendto
option on the right button menu, I think the directory is \windows\tasks, but am not certain of the name.
 
Anyway I know that this will work, so if you really want to be able to do this then you can give it a go.
                       
This does of course assume that task scheduler is running on both machines.