Any Way Of Opening Charms Bar Programmatically?

Jan 30, 2013

Is there any way of opening the charms bar programmatically?

I've got a simple vbs script that uses the GUID tor searching apps, which then uses "send keys" to find a specific app and open it. The app is just a photo gallery I use in place of my screensaver. The last step I want to add to the script is to open the charms bar (just so I have my app running and over the top I can see the clock.

I currently just trigger the vbs on idle via task scheduler.

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