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on some Windows 7 machine, notepad.exe
can launch from desktop
but lots of Windows 7 machine, no matter x86 or x64, it cannot start. no error no warning, just silently quit, like you never click on it before.
Is there any policy or system setting to block this?
I thought it is quite common to copy notepad.exe
to anyplace and run it, lots of Windows installer sample do this.
I've never experienced this behavior. Are you sure you're not doing something else wrong ? – None – 2011-05-04T07:29:01.243
Yes, we tried on several machine inside company. some machine can do the copy and run, some machine copy and run failed. so funny. – None – 2011-05-04T07:50:13.563
1I think it's much more likely that a "Windows installer" is actually creating a shortcut to notepad.exe on the desktop or in the Start menu, rather than actually copying the Notepad executable itself. I can't think of a good reason why copying the executable would somehow be better than creating a shortcut. How are you creating the desktop icon? – boot13 – 2011-05-04T16:14:08.543
Did you try creating a shortcut by right clicking anywhere on the Desktop, choosing create new item, new shortcut and pointing the source to C:\Windows\Systems32\notepad.exe with whatever name you wish? – Darius – 2011-05-04T16:54:04.503