Incorrect AV warnings against compiled AutoHotkey programs suck. It has been like this on and off for a long time. Not much individual coders can do about that I think. Something needs to change in the AV sector. But it probably won't.

Regarding my above test cases 1 and 4: You correctly replied

I guess that's to be expected and may not be considered a farr bug.. as long as i can fix the ones with doublequotes. Unless you tell me that those used to would work on the prior version of farr..

I shouldn't have included 1 and 4 at all, but was confused earlier because on a PC here with an older FARR version case 1 did open the file (despite spaces in path and not quote enclosed!). But it turns out that was only because Microsoft's Notepad.exe was replaced by Notepad2 on that PC. And Notepad2 (weirdly!) doesn't require quotes when passing a spaced filepath as parameter. So disregard that.

In other words: test case 2 and 3 (and 5 and 6 using the ++ method) are what matters. Forget 1 and 4.

In the as of now latest portable beta test cases 2 3 (and 5 6) work fine. So the issue seems solved.  :up:

Tested 2.238.01 beta portable in Virtualbox Win10

Test 1: result lines for an alias meant to run notepad and show a .txt file


- All items show up with correct icons in FARR
- This is what happens when an item is started from FARR:
1 4: opens blank Notepad and error messagebox about file not found
2: opens Notepad and with the .txt correctly
3: does nothing

5 6: opens blank Notepad correctly

5 6 also work as expected when adding ++ C:\test\a b.txt and ++ "C:\test\a b.txt" after the alias regex in the search box

Test 2: an alias meant to run Firefox and show google.com

- All items show up with correct icons in FARR
- This is what happens when an item is started from FARR:
1 2 4: opens Firefox and loads google.com correctly
3: does nothing
5 6: opens Firefox correctly

5 6 also work as expected when adding ++ https://www.google.com and ++ "https://www.google.com" after the alias regex in the search box

Related FARR help page on using ++ in searchbox to add a parameter
https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/help/passing_commandline_parameters.htm[/code]