Error from powershell start-process

Question

I'm trying to launch a process from powershell like this:-

$proc = (start-process $myExe -argumentList '/myArg True' -windowStyle Minimized -passthru)

This mostly works, however intermittently I get this error:-

This command cannot be executed completely because the system cannot find all the information required.

Googling for the error yields nothing and - to me at least - it's meaningless. The machine is quite tightly locked down and I suspect a configuration problem, but it would be easier to solve if I knew what the error was about.

The message appears to come from Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Management.dll

Does anyone know what it means or even what "information" it can't find?

Answer 1

try this one...

Set-Variable -Name myExe c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe
$proc = (start-process -FilePath $myExe -argumentList '/k' -windowStyle Minimized -passthru )

replace the cmd.exe with your exe