re: start command help needed! Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 6:49 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Manuel (18 messages posted) Sorry, but doesn't work, something is very obscure in my xp - well, it's microsoft's... I repeat my problem: For these commands: start eula.txt start index.html start neutron.jpg I get the error: "El sistema no puede ejecutar el programa especificado." (The system can not execute the specified program) The expected result is that the files are opened in notepad, firefox, and image viewer. Thanks for confirming that it is supposed to be done. But doesn't work in my pc... However these do work: start notepad.exe (launches notepad) start http://www.yahoo.com (opens yahoo in my default browser) System Info: Windows XP home SP2 - spanish ed. Shell launching command: cmd or cmd /X (enabling explicitly extensions) Assoc command shows this related info: .jpg=jpegfile txt=txtfile .html=FirefoxHTML FType command shows this related info: jpegfile=rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %1 txtfile=%SystemRoot%\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE %1 FirefoxHTML=C:\ARCHIV~1\MOZILL~1\FIREFOX.EXE -requestPending -osint -url "%1" Registry keys: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor]\ EnableExtensions=0x1 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor]\ EnableExtensions=0x1 Thanks again for your help. Written in response to: re: start command help needed! (Jacob6601: Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 6:06 pm) Responses to this message: re: start command help needed! (Jacob6601: Friday, October 19, 2007 at 7:50 am) re: start command help needed! (Rich Kurtz: Friday, October 19, 2007 at 12:28 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