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Strange behaviour from StarProcess - Does not open IE for download

Author
16 Aug 2006 2:25 PM
michele
I have an app that uses the startprocess command in order to download another
clickonce app. On the majority of the client PCs everything works fine,
however on some PCs the startprocess doesn't open the browser window so the
download cannot start and nothing happens. If I open an Internet Explorer
window and repeat the startprocess everything works fine. It seems that for
some reason on some PCs startprocess can't open the browser...please help.
NB. The startprocess works in this way: StartProcess
("iexplore","http://server/app.exe")

Author
16 Aug 2006 2:43 PM
Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]
michele wrote:
> I have an app that uses the startprocess command in order to download
> another clickonce app. On the majority of the client PCs everything
> works fine, however on some PCs the startprocess doesn't open the
> browser window so the download cannot start and nothing happens. If I
> open an Internet Explorer window and repeat the startprocess
> everything works fine. It seems that for some reason on some PCs
> startprocess can't open the browser...please help. NB. The
> startprocess works in this way: StartProcess
> ("iexplore","http://server/app.exe")

Is IE set as the default browser on the affected machines?

-cd
Author
16 Aug 2006 3:07 PM
michele
hi,
IE is the default browser in these PCs.

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"Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]" wrote:

> michele wrote:
> > I have an app that uses the startprocess command in order to download
> > another clickonce app. On the majority of the client PCs everything
> > works fine, however on some PCs the startprocess doesn't open the
> > browser window so the download cannot start and nothing happens. If I
> > open an Internet Explorer window and repeat the startprocess
> > everything works fine. It seems that for some reason on some PCs
> > startprocess can't open the browser...please help. NB. The
> > startprocess works in this way: StartProcess
> > ("iexplore","http://server/app.exe")
>
> Is IE set as the default browser on the affected machines?
>
> -cd
>
>
>

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