Hi Jd, tried you way as well %comspec%/C "start/ABOVNORMAL "F:Program FilesRcv30rcv3.exe"And I too have a dos prompt opening but RC is not executing...I have XP installed on C:windows and RC is F:Program FilesRcv30..As usuall the error saids can't find F:Program filesRcv30rcv3.exe.. These guys might be right it has to do with the partitioned drives. Thanks for your continuing support...

I was asked where i wanted it - or at least got the chance to see the path to where i wanted it to be installed - so i have it installed on my D-drive - without problems.. :-)

/c means execute the following string as a commandput it back the way i had it. in your case:%comspec% /C "start /ABOVENORMAL F:Program FilesMicrosoft GamesFS2002RCV30rcv3.exe"

%comspec%/C "start/ABOVNORMAL "F:Program FilesRcv30rcv3.exe"several things wrong. no space between second % and /cextra quote markno space between start and /abovenormal/abovenormal misspelledtry this, exactly:%comspec% /C "start /ABOVENORMAL F:Program FilesRcv30rcv3.exe"

Could it be a problem if the drive is formatted in the NTFS format rather than FAT32?? I think people today often choose the NTFS format and it's not really a DOS-format.... Otherwise it's rather puzzling..

no difference at all, fat32/ntfs.if you know where windows is installed, where rc is installed, and know the correct syntax, zero problems.

Ok Jd here is what I tried exactly....%comspec% /C "start /ABOVENORMAL F:Program FilesRcv30rcv3.exe"Just copy and past what you had and still nothing...

start a dos prompt and typedir f: /xthe results will look something like this:C:>dir /x Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is 9064-1515 Directory of C:11/02/2002 03:19 PM 0 AILog.txt07/18/2001 01:37 PM 0 AUTOEXEC.BAT07/18/2001 01:37 PM 0 CONFIG.SYS06/24/2002 04:02 PM

Heres what I've got so far....

JD, Tried it exactly as you said.It didn't work but when I changed the directory names to the shorter DOS names it worked perfectly.Once again,Radar Contact support shines.Regards,Mike W

Joseph,Are you running WinXP with NTFS?

fascinating, a directory without a short dos nametry this. move the f:program filesrcv30 to f:rcv30change the command to %comspec% /c start /abovenormal f:rcv30rcv3.exebest i can do :-)

Yep running XP in NTFS format...And the string %comspec% /c start /abovenormal f:rcv30rcv3.exedid not work either Jd...It seems that RCV3.exe can't be found anywhere on my computer.Thanks.

if you go to a dos prompt and type f:rcv30rcv3.exe, does it start?it has to be there somewhere!

Again, this is only given you moved RCv30 to F:It's not that RC can't be found, it's that with spaces in the command line, that's where the command stops. So Program Files, as you see from your example error message, is read as Program.As JD suggested, move the RCv30 directory up one level and use the new path in the command line.