re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' Sunday, November 28, 2004 at 2:34 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Assad E.K. Ebrahim (1 messages posted) I've had similar difficulties on Windows XP. It turns out the problem is not with running a shortcut from the command line. You can verify this by running from the command line the Paint.lnk shortcut located in your desktop folder. The problem is with running the dialup connection shortcut from the command-line. This does not seem possible by simply calling the link. Instead, the DOS shell utility to use is rasdial. To find out how to use it, open a cmd window and type: rasdial /? You'll use it in this way: rasdial [Phone Book Entry] [username] [password] VB6 Example: Shell "rasdial ""Connect to Intergate"" myusername@intergate.com mypassword", vbNormalFocus Here the doublequotes are because "Connect to Intergate" is the name of my connection in the Remote Dialer phonebook, and the spaces in the name force me to use quotes. Good luck. Written in response to: re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Chrisb: Friday, January 30, 2004 at 8:27 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (jason: Wednesday, December 8, 2004 at 2:42 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Chris (Hunt): Tue, Feb 4, 2003, 6:58 am) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (PartieHonteuse: Tue, Feb 4, 2003, 9:38 am) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Chris (Hunt): Tue, Feb 4, 2003, 4:09 pm) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Revoman: Wed, Mar 19, 2003, 7:39 am) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Salieri: Fri, May 23, 2003, 7:19 pm) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Vinnie D: Wed, Jun 4, 2003, 12:02 am) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Daniel: Wed, Jun 11, 2003, 4:20 am) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Ken Jones: Tue, Jul 25, 2006, 3:23 pm) re: lnk won't run minimized when executed from cmd (dan: Mon, Nov 20, 2006, 11:39 am) re: lnk won't run minimized when executed from cmd (DDB: Tue, Jan 23, 2007, 11:02 am) re: lnk won't run minimized when executed from cmd (paul lawrence: Wed, Apr 4, 2007, 5:24 am) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Nick C: Wed, Dec 31, 2003, 2:55 am) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Chrisb: Fri, Jan 30, 2004, 8:27 am) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Assad E.K. Ebrahim: Sun, Nov 28, 2004, 2:34 am) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (jason: Wed, Dec 8, 2004, 2:42 pm) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (dan-e: Wed, Oct 3, 2007, 9:00 pm) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (brunces: Thu, Apr 17, 2008, 7:41 am) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Oisín: Thu, Mar 16, 2006, 11:45 pm) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Curt: Fri, Mar 18, 2005, 10:40 pm) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (narc: Sun, Aug 7, 2005, 9:21 am) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Sonrisante: Sat, May 26, 2007, 6:41 pm) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (generic_idea_machine: Wed, May 14, 2008, 6:23 am) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Johny Johnson: Wed, Oct 21, 2009, 6:30 am) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (bobby boy: Sun, Mar 28, 2010, 4:14 pm) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Paul Cramer: Fri, Nov 18, 2005, 12:02 pm) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Rich Kurtz: Fri, Nov 18, 2005, 12:21 pm) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Paul Cramer: Wed, Nov 23, 2005, 12:53 pm) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Tom Anselmo: Sun, Jan 30, 2005, 3:19 pm) Why "start" doesn't work (David Spector: Sun, Feb 6, 2005, 4:29 am) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Andy Gee: Thu, Jun 24, 2010, 2:39 am) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (brunob75: Sun, Jun 27, 2010, 4:53 am) re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Andy Gee: Sun, Jun 27, 2010, 7:01 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum