Using the "start" command with parameters passed to the started program Ask Question. Asked 13 years, 3 months ago. Active 1 year, 9 months ago. Viewed k times. JosephStyons JosephStyons Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. JosephStyons Tim Farley Tim Farley Is this deprecated? The argument is null or empty. Supply an argument that is not null or empty and then try the command again — geotheory. Who would have imagined. Just the number of upvotes to your answer should be a reason enough for Microsoft to fix this 'peculiarity'.
In cmd. They both are meant for starting other processes, but start is an old embedded command in cmd. By chance about URL launching from task manager do you know the parameter to open a new tab silently when the browser is opened without changing the current page? Instead of a batch file, you can create a shortcut on the desktop. Ferruccio Ferruccio This looks like a reasonable work-around, but it doesn't really address the underlying problem, which is covered by the accepted answer.
I always disable 8. EXE will start IE with default web page. EXE www. Mrbios Mrbios 41 3 3 bronze badges. None of these answers worked for me. If you want passing parameter and your. Mack Mack 2 2 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. Active Oldest Votes. This means that the window will remain after the command has been run. If it is not an internal cmd command or batch file then it is a program and will run as either a windowed application or a console application. Improve this answer. Bob Bob I have to come up with something else then.
The command prompt window has to be kept open, however. Patryk If you don't mind using PowerShell, this command will open a windowless process that isn't connected to the spawning powershell.
PowerShell comes with Windows 7. Charlie Vieillard Charlie Vieillard 1 1 silver badge 8 8 bronze badges. In my comment on my own answer I've already provided an alternative method for "running VBox headlessly". My answer itself addresses the question of "passing arguments with start ". Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password.
Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Start a new instance of Notepad with the file myfile. Start the notepad window with the screen maximized. The above example would start the batch file mybatch. If the file or folder has a space in it, you must surround it with quotes. In the above example, we're starting the MP3 song file "my song.
Without the quotes surrounding the file name with a space , you would get a Windows cannot find the file error. Open the Computer Hope web page in your default browser from the command line.
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