start command help needed! Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 6:53 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Manuel (18 messages posted) Hi: I want to use the windows shell "start" command for launching different types of documents. However I have a problem. For example, start dump.txt start index.html is supposed to open dump.txt in notepad or index.html in the default web browser. However, I just get this error: "The system can't execute the specified program" When I type "assoc" command I get this for those file types: .txt=txtfile .html=FirefoxHTML When I type "ftype" command I get this related information: txtfile=%SystemRoot%\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE %1 FirefoxHTML=C:\ARCHIV~1\MOZILL~1\FIREFOX.EXE -requestPending -osint -url "%1" So I assume the file associations are OK. So what's wrong? start only works for exe files and http:// urls... isn't it supposed to work also for associated file types? If not, what alternative exists (if any)? Thanks. Responses to this message: re: start command help needed! (Rich Kurtz: Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 5:41 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] start command help needed! (Manuel: Thu, Oct 18, 2007, 6:53 am) re: start command help needed! (Rich Kurtz: Thu, Oct 18, 2007, 5:41 pm) re: start command help needed! (Jacob6601: Thu, Oct 18, 2007, 6:06 pm) re: start command help needed! (Manuel: Thu, Oct 18, 2007, 6:49 pm) re: start command help needed! (Jacob6601: Fri, Oct 19, 2007, 7:50 am) re: start command help needed! (Rich Kurtz: Fri, Oct 19, 2007, 12:28 pm) re: start command help needed! (Manuel: Fri, Oct 19, 2007, 3:58 pm) re: start command help needed! (Jacob6601: Fri, Oct 19, 2007, 8:16 pm) re: start command help needed! (Manuel: Tue, Oct 23, 2007, 7:02 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum