Notepad saying path is invalid for batch file

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I wrote this code in notepad to open the program files folder. It said that it couldn't find this directory. I even tried putting it in double quotes, but then it just opened a command prompt window and nothing else happened?

@echo off
start C:\Program Files\

OR

@echo off
start "C:\Program Files\"

Posted 19-Jul-14 1:16am

Nscoprio98

Updated 19-Jul-14 1:18am

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[no name] 19-Jul-14 7:24am

start %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe "folder path"

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Alan N · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-19T01:40:00

You question doesn't say what you expected to happen but but I assume that want to open an Explorer window at "c:\program files".

I've found that Start command is either peculiar or just not documented corrected as it seems that the optional title field is not always optional!

My tip would be to try the following format with an empty title field:

Start "" "c:\program files"

Alan.