re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' Friday, March 18, 2005 at 10:40 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Curt (1 messages posted) here's a solution: go to system in control panel (or hit Windows-key+Break). in the advanced tab, choose environment variables. change the system variable named 'PATHEXT' so that it includes .LNK it should look something like .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.VBS;.JS; .etc.; .LNK then you run a shortcut by typing the name with or without .lnk at the end. like: $> c:\links\firefox where firefox.lnk is the name of the shortcut. On Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 7:39 am, Revoman wrote: >I've also run into this problem on XP. the start whatever.lnk works on win 9x and >2k but I haven't been able to get it to work on XP. I do know with Win 2k I was >able to run the whatever.lnk without a start command in front. Still haven't found >a solution, so any help would be appreciated. > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (Revoman: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 7:39 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Run a Shortcut from the Command Prompt' (narc: Sunday, August 7, 2005 at 9:21 am) 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