Won't start "Failed to create process: 0x2"

[ultranewt]

Fairly certain I'm punching in my directories and commands correctly, but I get a "Failed to create process: 0x2" error and neither program will start.

Definitely have the x86 c++ distributable, and even restarted my pc (the horror)

I've tried typing the directory as absolute or with the %appdata% format

C:\WINDOWS\system32>cd C:\Users\User\Desktop\AbsoluteTouch-1.1.0\x86\

C:\Users\User\Desktop\AbsoluteTouch-1.1.0\x86>atloader.exe C:\Users\User\appdata\local\osu!\osu!.exe
Failed to create process: 0x2

C:\Users\User\Desktop\AbsoluteTouch-1.1.0\x86>atloader.exe %LocalAppData%\osu!\osu!.exe
Failed to create process: 0x2

C:\Users\User\Desktop\AbsoluteTouch-1.1.0\x86>\

This is what the window looks like when i run atloader.exe directly

Contact for device 00020059: link=1, touchArea={0,0,1030,748}
Contact for device 00020059: link=2, touchArea={0,0,1030,748}
Contact for device 00020059: link=3, touchArea={0,0,1030,748}
Contact for device 00020059: link=4, touchArea={0,0,1030,748}
Contact for device 00020059: link=5, touchArea={0,0,1030,748}
Detected touchpad with handle 00020059
CreateWindowExW() -> hWnd=00050336
RegisterRawInputDevices(mouse)

[apsun]

0x2 is the error code for "file not found", are you sure osu! is actually installed at that path? If you just enter

%LocalAppData%\osu!\osu!.exe

does that work?

[ultranewt]

I think the issue is that the desktop and appdata folders are both in the User folder, so when I set the current directory to the subfolder on the desktop it couldn't go up a level to where osu was installed, but maybe its something else.
I totally sidestepped the issue by putting the program into the osu folder.