How to open the Run window programmatically

Question

Everyone knows the Run window that you can open with the shortcut Windows+R or directly in the Windows menu then Run.
I\'m wondering how to open this Run window programmatic

Answer 1

You can use IShellDispatch::FileRun to achieve this.

See Using the Windows RunFile dialog - The documented and undocumented way for details and sample code.

Answer 2

If you mean that it could open say at 8:00 am, then you can use autohotkey and simply write SendInput {Raw}{Lwin}{R} and then compile it as an .exe and put it as a cron job