chore(syncthing): open URLs via Windows API instead via cmd.exe (#10712)

### Purpose
On Windows replace `cmd.exe /C start` with direct `ShellExecute` API for
opening the webpage.

The previous implementation used `exec.Command("cmd.exe", "/C", "start
"+url)` which spawns two extra processes (cmd.exe → start). Launching
cmd.exe resulted in a shortly visible terminal.

Both
-`start`
-and another alternative `exec.Command("rundll32",
"url.dll,FileProtocolHandler", url).Start()`
are just wrappers for `ShellExecute`. So this implementation is even
more direct

### Testing

I executed the compiled syncthing.exe on Windows 11, both from explorer
and console. The webpage opened as expected.

### Screenshots

N/A.

### Documentation

N/A

## Authorship

Name: Elias @Shablone
Email: [1elias.bauer@gmail.com](mailto:1elias.bauer@gmail.com)

Signed-off-by: Elias <1elias.bauer@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Elias <1elias.bauer@gmail.com>
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Shablone
2026-05-25 21:37:10 +00:00
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co-authored by Elias
parent 6be1ff8480
commit d91f8849a2
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@@ -9,8 +9,27 @@
package main
import "os/exec"
import "golang.org/x/sys/windows"
func openURL(url string) error {
return exec.Command("cmd.exe", "/C", "start "+url).Run()
urlPtr, err := windows.UTF16PtrFromString(url)
if err != nil {
return err
}
verbPtr, err := windows.UTF16PtrFromString("open")
if err != nil {
return err
}
err = windows.ShellExecute(
0, // hwnd
verbPtr, // operation
urlPtr, // file
nil, // parameters
nil, // directory
windows.SW_SHOWNORMAL,
)
return err
}