[FIX] For “‘REG’ is not recognized as an internal or external command..”

[StatusRed]

Hello, I was having some problems launching ArmA 2: Combined Operations from Steam, I searched the web looking for a solution but there was nothing that solved my problem. I decided to take matters into my own hands and fix it myself using some good ‘ol DOS knowledge.

Here is my post from the another ArmA forum post:

I was having a slightly different problem which I managed to resolve myself after thinking about it. I knew my knowledge of DOS would one day come in useful
I screenshot the command console window that popped up for a split second when running combined operations, the error I was getting was: “‘REG’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.”

Screen shot:


So I started looking for reg.exe and found it’s location and then edited the “_runA2CO.cmd” batch file to include the location of the reg.exe file as there is obviously a path issue with reg.exe on my computer. And so I replaced everywhere where it says “REG” to: “C:\Windows\System32\reg.exe”, and it seems to work! This is the only change I’ve made but I hope it helps some of you.

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[TonyGrunt]

Strange that it can't find REG.EXE.
Could you run the command "set path" on a command prompt and post what your "path" environment variable is set to?
Here is mine for example:
Path=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\Sys tem32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v 1.0\

[StatusRed]

Strange that it can't find REG.EXE.
Could you run the command "set path" on a command prompt and post what your "path" environment variable is set to?
Here is mine for example:
Path=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\Sys tem32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v 1.0\

I've already stated that I know exactly what the problem is. Yes you're right is it caused by having an incorrect path.

However, this doesn't stop this being useful to people. One person has already posted on my website saying how long it took him to find this and it was exactly what he needed.