https://nsis.sourceforge.io/mediawiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Reference%2FExecShell 2026-07-23T05:54:39Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.39.17 https://nsis.sourceforge.io/mediawiki/index.php?title=Reference/ExecShell&diff=21280&oldid=prev 2011-11-25T16:40:27Z

<p>Created page with &quot;=ExecShell= action command [parameters] [SW_SHOWDEFAULT | SW_SHOWNORMAL | SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED | SW_SHOWMINIMIZED | SW_HIDE] Execute the specified program using ShellExecute. Note...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>=ExecShell=<br /> <br /> action command [parameters] [SW_SHOWDEFAULT | SW_SHOWNORMAL | SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED | SW_SHOWMINIMIZED | SW_HIDE]<br /> <br /> Execute the specified program using ShellExecute. Note that action is usually &quot;open&quot;, &quot;print&quot;, etc, but can be an empty string to use the default action. Parameters and the show type are optional. $OUTDIR is used for the working directory. The error flag is set if the process could not be launched.<br /> <br /> &lt;highlight-nsis&gt;ExecShell &quot;open&quot; &quot;http://nsis.sf.net/&quot;<br /> ExecShell &quot;open&quot; &quot;$INSTDIR\readme.txt&quot;<br /> ExecShell &quot;print&quot; &quot;$INSTDIR\readme.txt&quot;&lt;/highlight-nsis&gt;</div>

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