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IonCaza
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Jun 02, 2022

Start menu "run command" doesn't pass parameters

When I try to issue a command like "shutdown -r -t 1" from the start menu, I can briefly see a command prompt opening and issuing just "shutdown".

 

"-r -t 1" does not get passed onto the command prompt that opens. I reported this bug a while back in the Windows Insider program but nobody addressed it.

 

Does anyone have any clue how to fix this? Please see screenshots so you can understand what I'm trying to do:

 

Step 1. Issuing command in start menu

Issuing a command from Start Menu

Step 2. Screen recorded showing command prompt quickly opening and closing and running "shutdown" command but clearly without parameters 

Behavior of issuing "shutdown -s -t 1" in Start Menu resulting in the same end result as issuing without parameters

 

Comparison of "shutdown" output without parameters in a regular command prompt.

Behavior of issuing "shutdown" command without parameters in a regular prompt

  • VinceE's avatar
    VinceE
    Copper Contributor
    Yea, kind of weird that it does state "Run command" from the Start menu with the full command above it, although only the first parameter gets passed.
  • elmusk's avatar
    elmusk
    Copper Contributor

    IonCaza 

     

    Really really annoying I agree

    Try this that works for me (as of Nov 2023)

    Right click the start menu

    Select 'run'

     

    and old box (code from 1990 probably) appears:

    'type the name of a program, folder.. bla bla bla'

     

    now run your batch file with parameters

     

    It should work

     

    • elmusk's avatar
      elmusk
      Copper Contributor
      Or faster , type windows key + R

      Same old box "Open" appears

      Then run your batch file with parameters
  • emulamer's avatar
    emulamer
    Copper Contributor
    With all the awful things in Windows 11 it's hard to pick a worst, but this one's top 5. And it's legitimately a bug and not intentional arbitrary badness like the rest. After you type, it says right there as the highlighted option: "command -with -arguments [Run Command]". That's what it explicitly says it's going to do. And it doesn't.
    • IonCaza's avatar
      IonCaza
      Copper Contributor

      Lol ... nobody cares about this... Am I the only person trying to run a terminal command from the start menu??

      • _Frank_'s avatar
        _Frank_
        Copper Contributor
        I prefer to run terminal commands from the start menu, but passing parameters (/arguments) doesnโ€™t work. That really sucks because Windows would be so much more useful if that was possible.

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