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My GCP Compute Engine instance running WS 2012 does not execute an executable command while using using a startup script.

Summary of steps followed:

  1. I created a Compute Engine instance with WS 2012.

  2. Set Metadata keys windows-startup-script-cmd with value = `"c:/prog/1.exe".

  3. copied all needed files to local disk.(exact folder c:/prog/).

  4. Shut down VM. (by GCP console).

  5. Started instance from the GCP console.

And it seems that the command "c:/prog/1.exe" did not run

I saw "1.exe" process running in the Task Manager but it did not do anything . (It should have created a specific file to show that it ran successfully).

Please, tell me if I did something wrong, Or if I missed anything. Thanks for your help .

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The windows-startup-script-cmd is metadata key to run cmd startup scripts on Windows instances. The cmd startup scripts are those with .cmd or .bat extensions. You can run your executable files through a batch file. How? visit this answer on stackoverflow.

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