oystercatcher Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 greetings,I am coming from win xp and trying out win7there are a couple of cmd shell programs I use regularly in particular mutt (email) and mcabber (im)if I setup the the shortcut to point directly to the executable I get an errorif I setup the shortcut like this cmd /k path to executable the program runs opening two cmd shellsand when closed leaves a cmd shell open on the desktop.if possible I would like to explore some other options to run these programsthank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikkiLav Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Try running the programs as Administrator. (Right click on the program shortcut, Run As Administrator) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 cmd /k path to executable the program runs opening two cmd shellsand when closed leaves a cmd shell open on the desktop.What about cmd.exe /c :http://ss64.com/nt/cmd.htmljaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oystercatcher Posted December 3, 2009 Author Share Posted December 3, 2009 I changed to cmd /c and although it still opens two cmd shell windows both close when i exist the application (mutt) which is betterthanks - also here is the screen error if I just click on the mutt.exe (doesnt matter if run as admin is used) from google i get the impression this is an access violation Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: mutt.exe Application Version: 1.5.19.0 Application Timestamp: 49c8dd75 Fault Module Name: mutt.exe Fault Module Version: 1.5.19.0 Fault Module Timestamp: 49c8dd75 Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: 0015a89a OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: 0a9e Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789 Additional Information 3: 0a9e Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789Read our privacy statement online: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=104...mp;clcid=0x0409 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yzöwl Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 I cannot tell you exactly what the problem is, however to run a Unix application in Windows 7 I'd expect you to be using it through a Linux API emulation layer such as Cygwin. However, as far as I'm aware Windows 7 is only supported in the current beta testing version of Cygwin. You are therefore running a beta version of Mutt, which isn't even the most recent version (heavily fixed), through a beta version of your emulation software and getting errors.I'd suggest that you try to redirect the questions through the beta test channels of your application software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Read our privacy statement online: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=104...mp;clcid=0x0409WHY should I? jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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