How do I open an exe from another C exe

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What I want to do is open an  exe from another  exe  I really don t know how to do this  so I searched the internet  I tried some suggested methods from the internet  but it didn t work   Here s my code    include  lt iostream gt   include  lt windows h gt  using namespace std   int main         system   OpenFile exe        system   pause        return 0      When I run it in DEV C    it compiles  but I get a error  Can someone please help me

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I ve had great success with this    include  lt iostream gt   include  lt windows h gt   int main         ShellExecute NULL   open    path  to  file exe   NULL  NULL  SW SHOWDEFAULT       If you re interested  the full documentation is here    http   msdn microsoft com en-us library bb762153 VS 85  aspx

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You are getting this error because you are not giving full path   C  Users    file exe  If you want to remove this error then either give full path or copy that application  you want to open  to the folder where your project  exe  is present saved    include  lt windows h gt  using namespace std  int main       system   start C   Users  Folder  chrome exe https   www stackoverflow com      for opening stackoverflow through google chrome   if chorme exe is in that folder     return 0

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You should always avoid using system   because   It is resource heavy   It defeats security -- you don t know you it s a valid command or does the same thing on every system  you could even start up programs you didn t intend to start up  The danger is that when you directly execute a program  it gets the same privileges as your program -- meaning that if  for example  you are running as system administrator then the malicious program you just inadvertently executed is also running as system administrator  If that doesn t scare you silly  check your pulse  Anti virus programs hate it  your program could get flagged as a virus    You should use CreateProcess     You can use Createprocess   to just start up an  exe and creating a new process for it  The application will run independent from the calling application   Here s an example I used in one of my projects    include  lt windows h gt   VOID startup LPCTSTR lpApplicationName          additional information    STARTUPINFO si          PROCESS INFORMATION pi         set the size of the structures    ZeroMemory   amp si  sizeof si        si cb   sizeof si      ZeroMemory   amp pi  sizeof pi           start the program up   CreateProcess  lpApplicationName       the path     argv 1             Command line     NULL               Process handle not inheritable     NULL               Thread handle not inheritable     FALSE              Set handle inheritance to FALSE     0                  No creation flags     NULL               Use parent s environment block     NULL               Use parent s starting directory       amp si                Pointer to STARTUPINFO structure      amp pi                Pointer to PROCESS INFORMATION structure  removed extra parentheses                Close process and thread handles       CloseHandle  pi hProcess        CloseHandle  pi hThread        EDIT  The error you are getting is because you need to specify the path of the  exe file not just the name  Openfile exe probably doesn t exist

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Provide the full path of the file openfile exe and remember not to put forward slash   in the path such as  c  users username etc     instead of that use  c   Users  username etc  for windows   May be this will help you

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Try this    include  lt windows h gt   int main           system   start notepad exe      As an example  Change  notepad  to any executable file         return 0

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When executable path has whitespace in system  call   include lt iostream gt  using namespace std  int main         system  explorer C   Program Files  Google  Chrome  Application  chrome exe         system  pause    return 0

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