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Hi, my name is Ignacio Cabero. I am new to batch programming. I want to create a program that copies an executable, pastes it in the users c:\ drive, and then executes it. Some information: I plan on distributing this to my friends via the internet. They visit mediafire and download my file, which c...

ShadowThief wrote:Yeah, don't try to run programs directly out of C:\

You can run it from any user's profile by saying

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 start "" "%userprofile%\test.exe"

Thank you, this really helped.

What about running as administrator?

Thank you.

You're missing a " in your code. Three, arguably, since the path should also be surrounded by quotes. start "" "C:\test.exe" Okay, thank you. Now is there any way so that I don't have to run as administrator? or is that only because I am trying to run a program in c:/ ?

Why does it need to be copied to the root of the System Drive? Why not just make a directory off the root of the system drive and copy it to that directory and then execute it? If I understand you, you mean create a pathway, like "c:\Users\username\Desktop\*", for example? The problem wit...

Why does it need to be copied to the root of the System Drive? Why not just make a directory off the root of the system drive and copy it to that directory and then execute it? If I understand you, you mean create a pathway, like "c:\Users\username\Desktop\*", for example? The problem wit...

Hello, my name is Ignacio Cabero. I am trying to run a simple program that copies an executable file from my "E:\" drive to my "C:\" drive, and then run that executable. I have no experience with batch. Seriously. I come from a python and C++ background, but I wanted to experimen...