windows - How to start an application in a given directory, using other as its working dir?

06
2014-04
  • user2723297

    For a system we are deploying for our customer we need to run the setup executable from %temp% and have it use for the installation, files in another directory. This cannot be solved at the application level. So, basically what I need it to somehow "cheat" the setup.exe located at %temp% to think it ran under another directory.

    Any ideas? I tried doing pushd & popd, that doesn't work because the OS tries to call setup.exe from the data files' directory, not setup.exe. I also tried calling setup.exe by running a bat from the data files directory, that basically calls it by doing:

    %temp%\setup.exe

    doing:

    cd %temp%
setup.exe

    also failed

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  • Krazy_Kaos

    Could this be what you're looking for:

    Hidden Start

    From the site:

    Console applications and batch files are regularly run at Windows startup or in a schedule. The main inconvenience of this is that each application opens a console window that flickers on the screen. Hidden Start (or Hstart) is a lightweight command line utility that allows you to run console applications and batch files without any window in the background, handle UAC privilege elevation under Windows 7 and Vista, start multiple commands in parallel or synchronously, and much more.

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    Examples:

    Hstart is usually started by entering the following command line:

hstart /NOCONSOLE "batch_file_1.bat" "batch_file_2.bat" "batch_file_3.bat"
It is possible to redirect the console output of batch files into a log file:

hstart /NOCONSOLE /IDLE /D="E:\Backups" 
     "cmd.exe /c "MyDailyBackup.bat > backup-log.txt""
The /IDLE command line switch means that the backup process will run with the lowest priority class, and /D="" sets the starting directory of the batch file (required if the command line or script contain relative paths).

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