spawn cmd ENOENT on Windows Server 2016 about find-process HOT 7 CLOSED

Supposedly this can happen on Windows because of something to do with filename extensions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27688804/how-do-i-debug-error-spawn-enoent-on-node-js

I think that if you simply changed the cmd to cmd.exe on this line, the error might go away:

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@flotwig Is this not related to this issue? #9 Cypress is updating to the version that contains this fix, so it may fix this issue cypress-io/cypress#4087

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@jennifer-shehane I don't think it's the same issue, this error was actually crashing the process

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Supposedly this can happen on Windows because of something to do with filename extensions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27688804/how-do-i-debug-error-spawn-enoent-on-node-js

I think that if you simply changed the cmd to cmd.exe on this line, the error might go away:

find-process/lib/find_process.js

Line 123 in 62c9211

const proc = utils.spawn('cmd', ['/c', cmd], { detached: false, windowsHide: true })

I don't have the environment to reproduce this issue, please verify if this change can fix the problem.

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I haven't been able to reproduce it either :/

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This actually seems to be happening when the user does not have C:\Windows\System32 in their PATH:

• cypress-io/cypress#4260 (comment)
• cypress-io/cypress#3093 (comment)
• cypress-io/cypress#3912 (comment)
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28624686/get-spawn-cmd-enoent-when-try-to-build-cordova-application-event-js85

Would changing that line to the following be a good solution?

const proc = utils.spawn('C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe', ['/c', cmd], { detached: false, windowsHide: true }) 

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The error in windows is reproduced if the path to C:\Windows\System32 is missing in the system PATH variable.
The path can be restored in this way:

const CMDPath = path.resolve(env.WINDIR, path.sep+'system32');
const pathArray = (env?.PATH || '').split(path.delimiter);
pathArray.push(CMDPath);
process.env.PATH = pathArray.join(path.delimiter);

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