when you say you copy to c-drive, where in c-drive you copy the executable?
I am even further thinking this is an issue of trust. your unc is not recognized as local intranet zone and thus gets blocked. might be way of this, but nobody has checked on this yet.
in the batch file i just run a copy command that copies the exe and the .kix file to a folder on the C drive from the DC. where might the trust setting be on windows 8.1?
