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Leo
Leo

Reputation: 3146

In powershell via RDP RemoteApp, why does `start firefox` work, but `start chrome` not work?

If I do an RDP to the remote machine, open Powershell from the Start menu, then start Chrome, it will start up correctly, i.e., open a new window, with this command:

start chrome

I have Powershell configured as a remote app. When I log on to the RemoteApp instead, then I can enter

start firefox
start calc
Start-Process calc

and these applications all appear on the RDP client as I would expect. But

start chrome

does nothing. I don't get any errors, the window simply does not show up. Everything is up-to-date as of Oct 2015.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 279

Answers (1)

Zombo
Zombo

Reputation: 1

Using PowerShell, start is an alias for Start-Process. This Cmdlet makes a low level call to Shell.ShellExecute which works like this:

  1. start firefox
  2. Start-Process firefox
  3. Start-Process firefox.exe
  4. Search for firefox.exe on PATH
  5. Search for firefox.exe on App Paths

So likely what has happened is that Firefox is on App Paths and and Chrome is not.

Run box special folders

Upvotes: 1

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