Windows 10: Acces Denied - trying to create shortcut launching program with CMD

Hello! I am running Windows 10 and trying to adjust the affinity & the priority of Escape from Tarkov in the task manager automatically when I launch the game. I am aware you can manually change it, but every time you close the session you have to re do it.

It is my understanding it should be possible to do this with a little bit of 'scripting'.

I tried creating the following shortcut on my desktop

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start "BsgLauncher" /high /affinity 55 "C:\Setups\Setups2\EFT\BsgLauncher"

However nothing happens when I try to open it. Right clicking and running as administration doesn't work either. I then tried opening CMD as administrator and simply pasting the following

start "BsgLauncher" /high /affinity 55 "C:\Setups\Setups2\EFT\BsgLauncher"

but I get "Access denied". For curiositys sake I tried to start Paint through the CMD by using the same command (editing name & filepath), and I still get the access denied error.

Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

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:)

 

To open cmd.exe as administrator without creating a shortcut for cmd

How do you want to launch it?

 

To open cmd.exe as administrator without creating a shortcut for cmd

How do you want to launch it?

Once you confirm that you are going to launch it using a shortcut [or explain how you are intending to do it] then this thread can start helping you get the job done.

Denis

 

Access Denied


EDIT: Here's a solution...
Launch the shortcuts via CMD:

1. Right-click the shortcut to Properties
2. Click Change Icon, then click OK when its window pops up (necessary step to avoid losing the icon)
3. Add the following, plus a space, to the beginning of the Target field, leaving the existing path at the end:
   Code:
   
   Code:

   cmd /c start ""

I do this and the shortcut opens the command window