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Sandwich
Sandwich

Reputation: 356

Can't launch exe with process start

I'm trying to replicate the start menu, I can get the paths to all the applications no problem. And have managed to get the path to target exe for shortcuts. I can launch most of them without any issues, but some of them (one currently, but I'd assume they'll be more) fail with the below error

Error => "The instruction at {hex} referenced memory at {hex}. The memory could not be read"

I've tried

Process.Start(pathToMyExe);

ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(pathToMyExe);
processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
processStartInfo.WorkingDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(pathToMyExe);
Process.Start(processStartInfo);

ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(@"C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe");
processStartInfo.Arguments = "/c \"" + pathToMyExe + "\"";
Process.Start(processStartInfo);

Some of these came back with the above error, some did nothing at all. The file I'm trying to launch is

Acrobat Reader DC

which is located at

C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroRd32.exe

on my machine. It launches fine from the start menu, and if I double click on it in explorer.

I've looked at all the other questions about similar problems, non of the solutions seem to work for this. Anyone got any ides of a way around this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1003

Answers (1)

Peregrine
Peregrine

Reputation: 4546

The following works fine in both a console application and a WPF application.

var exePath = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroRd32.exe";
new Process {StartInfo = {FileName = exePath}}.Start();

Upvotes: 1

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