You can’t just close those at random without knowing which is the one you want. cpl file and only appears in the process list as an instance of rundll32.exe. Except it wasn’t actually that simple…įirst off, being a Control Panel applet, RAP is a. So I thought a simple solution would be to get the installer batch file to close the RAP window to help signify completion rather than having to start faffing with pop-up message boxes (which no one ever reads). I noticed that when the user starts off the download and install from within RAP, they get no on-screen notification that it’s completed, and the main RAP window does not update the “Last Run Time” and “Last Status” fields unless you close and re-open it. Except trying to get users to find the RAP icon (especially with their having to find the Control Panel and then switch out of Category View first), we decided to simplify things by throwing an icon on the Desktop to it on the machines that we’ll target for this app and then the installation will remove that shortcut afterwards. There’s an app where we needed the user to control when it installed, so this made for an easy solution. I’ll call it RAP from here-on! It’s not a feature we ever made use of, preferring the completely silent automated approach, but wanted to try it this week for something specific. Still having an old SCCM 2007 server managing some desktops, I came across an interesting problem this week with the “ Run Advertised Programs” Control Panel applet.

Windows 7 run advertised programs