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I had a problem running executables (like identify.exe and convert.exe from ImageMagick) from php under windows using the exec() funciton. The solution provided by others was kind off stupid... Give full permisions on cmd.exe to IURS... Like you wanna do that.....
I wrote a exec() replacement function using the bypass_shell option proc_open has. It works great for me. Do your favour with it.

 
<?php
 
	function executeCommand($cmd) {
 
		if(DEBUG === true) {
			echo "Command: ".$cmd;
			echo "<br>";
			echo "Tempdir: ".TEMP_DIR;
			echo "<br>";
		}
 
		$descriptorspec = array(
		   0 => array("pipe", "r"),
		   1 => array("pipe", "w"),
		   2 => array("pipe", "w")
		);
 
		$process = proc_open(
				$cmd,
				$descriptorspec,
				$pipes,
				TEMP_DIR,
				NULL,
				array('bypass_shell' => TRUE)
		);
 
		if(!is_resource($process)) {
			return false;
		}
 
		if(!$pipes[1]) {
			if(DEBUG === true) {
				echo "No STDOUT<br>";
			}
			return false;
		}
		$output = stream_get_contents($pipes[1]);
		fclose($pipes[1]);
		$err = stream_get_contents($pipes[2]);
		fclose($pipes[2]);
 
		$x = proc_get_status($process);
 
		$return_value = proc_close($process);
 
		if($return_value == 0) {
			if(DEBUG === true) {
				echo "Return value {$return_value}<br>";
				print_r($x);
				echo "<br><br><br>";
			}
			return explode("\n", str_replace("\r", '', $output));
		} else {
			if(DEBUG === true) {
				echo "Return value {$return_value}<br>";
				print_r($x);
				echo "Output: ".$output;
				echo "Error: ".$err;
				echo "<br><br><br>";
			}
			return false;
		}
 
	}
?>