Error in Process.Start() -- The system cannot find the file specified
You can't use a filename like iexplore
by itself because the path to internet explorer isn't listed in the PATH
environment variable for the system or user.
However any path entered into the PATH
environment variable allows you to use just the file name to execute it.
System32
isn't special in this regard as any directory can be added to the PATH
variable. Each path is simply delimited by a semi-colon.
For example I have c:\ffmpeg\bin\
and c:\nmap\bin\
in my path environment variable, so I can do things like new ProcessStartInfo("nmap", "-foo")
or new ProcessStartInfo("ffplay", "-bar")
The actual PATH
variable looks like this on my machine.
%SystemRoot%\system32;C:\FFPlay\bin;C:\nmap\bin;
As you can see you can use other system variables
, such as %SystemRoot%
to build and construct paths in the environment variable.
So - if you add a path like "%PROGRAMFILES%\Internet Explorer;" to your PATH
variable you will be able to use ProcessStartInfo("iexplore");
If you don't want to alter your PATH
then simply use a system variable such as %PROGRAMFILES%
or %SystemRoot%
and then expand it when needed in code. i.e.
string path = Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables(
@"%PROGRAMFILES%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe");
var info = new ProcessStartInfo(path);
Try to replace your initialization code with:
ProcessStartInfo info
= new ProcessStartInfo(@"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe");
Using non full filepath on Process.Start
only works if the file is found in System32 folder.