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re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' Friday, August 13, 2004 at 11:17 am Posted by DEX (11847 messages posted) Michael Try this,, right click on the shortcuts select Prop. and set them up the way you want them... besure to use a new name for ea. of them i.e. cdma,cmdb ,etc. Target: C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe Start in: C:\ Start in: or what every and LayOut folder Uncheck Let System Position Window then you can setup the Window Position. hope this helps a bit 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? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' Friday, August 13, 2004 at 1:05 pm Posted by Michael Scheper (3 messages posted) Thanks for your response, but the shortcuts already have the properties you describe. They work fine when I click on them; they just don't behave properly when they're referenced by the start command. On Friday, August 13, 2004 at 11:17 am, DEX wrote: Try this,, right click on the shortcuts select Prop. and set them up the way you want them... besure to use a new name for ea. of them i.e. cdma,cmdb ,etc. Target: C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe Start in: C:\ Start in: or what every and LayOut folder Uncheck Let System Position Window then you can setup the Window Position. hope this helps a bit [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' Friday, August 13, 2004 at 2:30 pm Posted by DEX (11847 messages posted) Did you try C:\Doc.& Settings\USER ID\Desktop\then the icon shortcut On Friday, August 13, 2004 at 1:05 pm, Michael Scheper wrote: > Thanks for your response, but the shortcuts already have the properties you describe. >They work fine when I click on them; they just don't behave properly when they're >referenced by the start command. > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' Friday, August 13, 2004 at 2:48 pm Posted by Michael Scheper (3 messages posted) Thanks again for your reply. And yes, my batch file refers to the shortcuts by their full paths. (I don't keep shortcuts on my desktop; I like keeping my desktop tidy. =) ) On Friday, August 13, 2004 at 2:30 pm, DEX wrote: Did you try C:\Doc.& Settings\USER ID\Desktop\then the icon shortcut [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' Tuesday, May 3, 2005 at 10:26 am 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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