re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt'
Tuesday, May 3, 2005 at 10:26 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Tony
(1 messages posted)
There is a way to do this, but it's a pain in the neck. You need to copy the cmd.exe
(in WINDOWS\system32) application to whatever directory you want to have the batch
file point to as many times as windows you want to open at once. Then open each one
and change all the settings, make sure to deselect Let system position window and
to save the properties for future windows. then create a batch file using the start
"c:\
On Friday, August 13, 2004 at 8:52 am, Michael Scheper wrote:
>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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