Excel Program not coming to foreground at PC start Windows10 touchscreen

Copper Contributor

Hoping to find some help here.

I have a windows10 pc with a touchscreen and no keyboard or mouse. I have an excel program that I want to start up everytime the pc is restarted. I used shell:startup to place a shortcut for the file in the folder and the system will start and open the file but it is in the background. I can click it from the tablet menu and it opens but i would like it to come to the foreground by itself. I did some testing and setup the exact same file into a nontouch screen laptop and the file opens perfect. Here is a sample of the simple vba code running on the file and some code I have tried to make it come to the foreground. 

private Sub Workbook_Open()

    Application.Caption = "Test System"

    Application.Wait (Now + 0.0001)

    'SendKeys "%{Tab}", True

    'ActiveWindow.Visible = True

    MsgBox "System Restarting", vbcritcal + vbSystemModal

End Sub

the two comment lines I have tried to make the program come to the foreground but they did not help, I tried them one at a time .

1 Reply

@MolineZ 

I used this code to make it work, the sendkeys command had to be after a few lines of code to work other wise the program would not come to the foreground. AppActivate only gave me runtime error #5. 

Private Sub Workbook_Open()

    restartct = Sheets("search").Cells(1, 13)

    If GetTickCount < 80000 Then

      restartct = restartct + 1

      Application.Wait (Now + 0.0001)

      Application.WindowState = xlMaximized

      frmBadinput.Label1 = "System Restarting"

      SendKeys "%{tab}"

      mdelay = 2

      frmBadinput.Show

    End If

    frmWelcome.Show

     Sheets("Search").Activate

     ActiveSheet.Cells(1, 13).Value = restartct

     ActiveSheet.Cells(5, 1).Select

     ActiveWindow.Zoom = 120

End Sub

macro#1

Option Explicit

Public Declare Function GetTickCount& Lib "kernel32" ()