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Originally posted by zxcv at 2006-7-21 15:46:

But only a part of those that are correctly installed and registered in the registry will work. I tried normal installations, and AutoCAD works.

Yes, most of the installed software can be started, especially those from foreign or large software companies. Simply list a few common ones:
start realplay
start ACDSee7
start mplayerc
start winrar
start kav
start QuickTimePlayer
start nero
start uedit32
start Office series....
start Microsoft all components....
Chat tools like QQ don't work:lol:

Last edited by fastslz on 2006-7-21 at 16:12 ]

The key point is: It needs to be installed in the normal installation method and then registered in the registry.

Use shortcuts ^.^

ECHO HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\ACCESS2K.EXE] >TMP.REG

ECHO @="D:\\Access2KRT\\Office\\MSACCESS.EXE">>TMP.REG

ECHO "Path"="D:\\Access2KRT\\Office\\">>TMP.REG

ECHO "useURL"="1>>TMP.REG

REGEDIT /S TMP.REG

DEL TMP.REG /Q/F

Originally posted by namejm at 2006-7-21 15:33:
　　"Can we ignore the path for installed software"? Fastslz, are you kidding? Anyway, I put the bat file on the desktop and then start to install a program in another partition, and it never succeeded...

Moderator namejm, in fact, start can indeed ignore many paths, and can also start a certain directory, such as
start system32 will directly open the system32 directory of WINDOWS.

Regarding the paths that START can ignore, they can be set in the registry. All commands that can ignore paths in the registry are stored in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths. You can even directly use BAT to add programs that need to ignore paths. For example, I add a program MSACCESS.EXE that can start ACCESS 2000 RUNTIME. In order to avoid conflict with the original MSACESS.EXE program, I change it so that you can enter START ACCESS2K.EXE in the command to start the application

ECHO HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\ACCESS2K.EXE] >TMP.REG

ECHO @="D:\\Access2KRT\\Office\\MSACCESS.EXE">>TMP.REG

ECHO "Path"="D:\\Access2KRT\\Office\\">>TMP.REG

ECHO "useURL"="1>>TMP.REG

REGEDIT /S TMP.REG

DEL TMP.REG /Q/F

@echo off
cd "Path of the program to run"
start /min Name
exit


For example:
Path is d:\program files\
Name is wmplayer.exe

Remember to add double quotes

Last edited by scriptor on 2006-12-28 at 11:21 PM ]

@echo off

SET PH=%ProgramFiles%\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\

FOR %%I IN (AcroRd32.exe) DO start "" "%%~$PH:I"

exit

Using %PATH% to find files is indeed good. Hehe, you can also use this way to find the execution file's path.

@echo off

SET PH=%ProgramFiles%\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\

FOR %%I IN (AcroRd32.exe) DO start "" "%%~$PH:I"

exit

In PH, you can use ; to separate multiple paths like PATH.

start "D:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" AA

Also, I just thought of two questions that no one answered, so I'll answer them, heh.
1, Why can using START automatically close the CMD window.
2, Why must use start "Title of AcroRd32.exe" "D:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" to execute.

The first is because, if it's an internal CMD command or a batch file, by default it runs with CMD /K, and /K means run the program and keep the window.
The second is because, the path in quotes is recognized as the title string, so there's no path, and thus an error occurs. If you write it as,

start "D:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" AA

then it will prompt you that file AA is not found.

Last edited by hxuan999 on 2006-12-29 at 07:53 PM ]

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