Place the exe in the game dir and run it

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This is the only answer that helped me. I would add that "restarting the system" isn't necessary. Simply restarting the cmd would suffice. For this to work, I also did what is described in the answer provided by Ben Voigt in this thread — thymaro. Usage: linkerd [command] Available Commands: check Check the Linkerd installation for potential — Vinay. Andreas Rejbrand Andreas Rejbrand 99k 8 8 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. However, it has always worked with the start command, so you can type start myexe in a cmd.

But myexe alone shouldn't work, I think unless you are in the directory of myexe or that directory is in the PATH environment variable.

I simply make a small myprog. This key works to run from Explorer. Obligatory Old New Thing article. Show 2 more comments. Daniel Schneller Ben Voigt Ben Voigt k 38 38 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

Do you mind adding an example of such an batch-file - would be nice? I feel like this is the best option, I didn't want to add too many stuff to path variable. I'll edit into this answer example of such batch file. The problem I'm having with this is it starts a new shell. Johann: Take out the start "" and just begin with the path to the executable. Also, for use in cygwin, you might want a cygwin shell script, or a symlink.

Or a shell alias. Perfect, thank you! I agree with your other options for within cygwin, but in this case I'm trying to use a cygwin binary from powershell.

Bevan Bevan 1, 10 10 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. Does this remain permanent? I've never had to redo it again — Bevan. It is very simple and it won't take more than 30 seconds. Benja Benja 3, 1 1 gold badge 28 28 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. If you want to be able to run it inside cmd. Anders Anders Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge.

Erasmus Erasmus 1, 1 1 gold badge 12 12 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. Click ok and exit. Open a new cmd prompt and hit the command from any folder and it should work. StaceyGirl 7, 12 12 gold badges 35 35 silver badges 64 64 bronze badges. Akash Yellappa Akash Yellappa 1, 20 20 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. Teson Teson 6, 7 7 gold badges 42 42 silver badges 67 67 bronze badges.

It depends. In order to make it work You need to modify the value of the environment variable with the name key Path , you can add as many paths as you want separating them with ;. Here is how to create a system environment variable from a python script: It is important to run it with administrator privileges in order to make it work.

CreateKey winreg. SetValueEx key, 'Path', 0, winreg. Related Articles. Article Summary. Open your computer's Start menu. Click the Start button in the lower-left corner of your desktop to open your Start menu. Type and search cmd on the Start menu. Command Prompt should show up at the top of the search results. Click Command Prompt on the Start menu. This will open a new Command Prompt window. Type cd [filepath] into Command Prompt.

This command will allow you to navigate into the folder containing the exe program you want to run. Find the file path of the folder containing your exe program.

Open the folder containing your program in a file explorer window, and copy or note the file path from the address bar at the top of the window. For example, if you're trying to run Mozilla Firefox, the exe file you want to run may be located in a folder called Mozilla Firefox in Program Files on your C drive.

Replace [filepath] in the command with your program's file path. Navigating into this file path will allow you to run commands here and run the exe program in this folder. This will navigate you into the selected file path in Command Prompt. This command will allow you to run a program from the selected file path. Replace [filename. This should exactly match your exe program's file name in the folder. For example, if you're running Mozilla Firefox, the program file should be named firefox.

In this case, your command will look like start firefox. This will run the selected program on your computer. How can I run the exe as an executable if I know the file extension is not exe? For example, if the file is compiled on Linux and transferred to Windows, how would I run the file without an extension? Edit the file's name press F2 or right click and rename , then add an. Not Helpful 63 Helpful 9.

After following the process, I am getting error "Failed to execute script". Could you please help me in this? The coding cat. This may be because the script you are trying to run is broken or it cannot be found.

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