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Thread: Program that Opens/Executes a File on Windows

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    Default Program that Opens/Executes a File on Windows

    I made a program that could open a file on a mac and it worked fine. For some reason when I try it on Windows with this code I receive an error message.
    try{
    	Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] {"rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler",
    				"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Folder\\Filename"});
    		} catch(IOException e) {
    			e.printStackTrace();
    		}

    The error message is:

    java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified
    at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java :459)
    at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:593)
    at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:466)
    at fileFinderP.MostRecentFile.main(MostRecentFile.jav a:39)
    Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified
    at java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(ProcessImpl.java:81)
    at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:30)
    at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java :452)
    ... 3 more

    I checked and made sure the file path was right, and it was. Then I rechecked the way I specified "rundll32...." and that was correct as well. I also added with no avail the try/catch statements to see if that may help, as it was necessary for my program to work on my mac.

    My entire program is attached in case that may help.
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    Default Re: Program that Opens/Executes a File on Windows

    Problem solved. I just had to change my array around to:

    {"rundll32", "url.dll,FileProtocolHandler", "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Folder\\Filename"}

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