Visual Studio Code IDE, cannot launch browser, access denied even when run under admin privileges?

Question

User1809093284 posted

Help

Hosting environment: Development
Content root path: C:\Users\dan\OneDrive\dan\WEBA
Launching browser (cmd.exe /C start http://localhost:50136)
WARNING: Launching browser failed. Error = Access is denied
Now listening on: http://localhost:50136

Answer 1

User-474980206 posted

first check that start works from the command line:

   start http://google.com

this should start the default browser, with google, com as the start page.

Answer 2

User1809093284 posted

Hi Bruce

Yes it works from an old school command prompt.

start http://google.com forces chrome to open up (which is already set as my default browser) and navigates successfully to google.cm