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Artūras Kalandarišvili
Artūras Kalandarišvili

Reputation: 113

Start explorer.exe remotely with a path specified in Powershell

The problem I have is that I am able to Invoke-command explorer.exe on a remote machine without giving it any path parameters, yet when I enter:

Invoke-Command -ComputerName PC01 -Credential $cred -ScriptBlock  {explorer.exe "C:\Foldername"}

Nothing happens, except for the fact that I get an error entry in the logs saying:

The server {75DFF2B7-6936-4C06-A8BB-676A7B00B24B} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 8754

Answers (1)

Ranadip Dutta
Ranadip Dutta

Reputation: 9133

First thing, If you are trying this directly on the local system, the GUI will pop up properly.

Invoke-Command  -ScriptBlock  {C:\Windows\explorer.exe "C:\folder"}

But the problem, is how powershell will open a GUI console invoked from the remote system. Basically, it does not have the session to hold. You need a desktop session to do that.

In that case, you should use PSEXEC with -i

psexec -i -d -s c:\windows\explorer.exe C:\folder

Download it from Here: PSExec-v2.11. This link has all the explanations with examples on how to use each utility.

Hope it helps.

Upvotes: 1

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