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Humberto Freitas
Humberto Freitas

Reputation: 483

Problems with Ampersand start as “Run as administrator”

I wonder how do I run a .bat or .cmd file as an administrator within a folder where the name contains the same Ampersand "&"? every time I try to run the file appears an error ... at what I did when I try to run as administrator cmd understand that & the folder name is a command.

Let me illustrate, I have a folder called Projects in Cmd & vbs and a file called Project 01.bat when I try to run it as administrator until an error occurs q I remove it from the folder that contains the "&" if the Cmd & vbs.

Folder name: Cmd & Vbs
Script name: Project 01.bat
Form of execution: Option “Run as administered” in the context menu
Version of windows: 7

Example Script:

@Echo Off
Title Remover - [WMP] Buy online music
Color 4f
reg delete "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Audio\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPShopMusic" /f>nul 2>&1
echo msgbox"Removed!",vbinformation> %temp%\Msg.vbs
start /wait %temp%\Msg.vbs>nul 2>&1
Del %temp%\Msg.vbs>nul 2>&1
Exit

Upvotes: 0

Views: 516

Answers (2)

Humberto Freitas
Humberto Freitas

Reputation: 483

I discovered that this problem is in runas configuration and the correction is below:

Browse the regedit to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shell\runas\command

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\cmdfile\shell\runas\command

Changes the value:

%SystemRoot%\System32\cmd.exe /C "%1" %*

To:

%SystemRoot%\System32\cmd.exe /C ""%1"" %*

Upvotes: 1

user4317867
user4317867

Reputation: 2448

Bill is correct, for DOS to work with the & character, you need to escape it using ^ an example might help:

C:\Temp>cd my&test The system cannot find the path specified. 'test' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

C:\Temp>cd my^&test

C:\Temp\my&test>

Upvotes: 1

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