I have a question about Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt. (It has not been answered in any of the other forums, either.)

How can I get start to preserve the window positioning information that's included in shortcuts to cmd windows?

Background: I'm an old-fashioned command-based user so I like to have a number of cmd windows open. I find that I keep opening four windows and moving them to the same four positions on my desktop. Hoping to avoid having to do this every time I restart my computer, I created four shortcuts to cmd which open the four windows where I want them. I thought that creating a batch file with four start commands would quickly open all four windows, but when I use the batch file, the windows are small and cascaded, instead of being the sizes and positions I want.

I've tried /B and even /I with the start commands. They don't help. Is there a way to do it, or is this something Windows 2000 Pro just can't do?

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