Pop up Start menu

Question

hi all i am doing a project on speech recognition system where i want to give voice commands. i could able to open MS office Calculator every thing through voice commands. But i want to popup my start menu dynamically using voice commands. how can i do that? This is the code i am using to open a calculator dynamically Dim p As New Process p.StartInfo.FileName = calc.exe p.Start() is there any code like this to pop up my start menu? or else how can i do the same. Please help me..

Kirtan Patel · Answer

you Need Below !! for Opening Start Menu ! :) code will send windows Key Key Stork and Start Menu Will open :) private void button1_Click( object sender EventArgs e) { SendKeys .Send( ^{ESC} ); }

Kirtan Patel · Answer

Hi  Download Below Attached Project It works on My Laptop I have Tested it .. if not works on your computer then let me know .

Santhosh N · Answer

You could try something likethis by first invoking the taskbar and then find startmenu from that which is child window under XP but changed in Vista though.. [DllImport(  user32.dll  SetLastError = true )] static extern IntPtr FindWindowEx( IntPtr parentHandle IntPtr childAfter string className string windowTitle); IntPtr taskBarWnd = FindWindow(  Shell_TrayWnd  null ); IntPtr startWnd = FindWindowEx(taskBarWnd IntPtr .Zero  Button   Start ); check here for more info on this here http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/hide_vista_start_orb.aspx