OK some of my users were having problems with SVChost.
potentially blaster or some strain of blaster, who knows.
jury is still out on that one. To remedy the problem I
updated all the PCs with the latest and greatest service
packs, security patches , and MS updates. So life is
great right? You'd think my users would be happy. No,
now I'm getting copmplaints about the command prompt.

My users use a few command line programs and after the
update when they start up cmd.exe it no longer goes to the
C:\>. It now goes to C:\Documents and settings\%username%
>. I have scoured the KB b ut haven't found a document
that addresses this issue. But some of you guys can
always find the article I'm looking for in minutes where I
am unable to after hours of looking. Just luck I
guess.

So do any of you guys know how I can switch the command
prompt default startup path back to C:\>?

Thanks,
Mike Busch

Just edit the properties for the shortcut, and change the
"Start in:" field to C:\

Rick

"Mike Busch" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:68aa01c3b38f$74ec14f0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> OK some of my users were having problems with SVChost.
> potentially blaster or some strain of blaster, who knows.
> jury is still out on that one. To remedy the problem I
> updated all the PCs with the latest and greatest service
> packs, security patches , and MS updates. So life is
> great right? You'd think my users would be happy. No,
> now I'm getting copmplaints about the command prompt.
>
> My users use a few command line programs and after the
> update when they start up cmd.exe it no longer goes to the
> C:\>. It now goes to C:\Documents and settings\%username%
> >. I have scoured the KB b ut haven't found a document
> that addresses this issue. But some of you guys can
> always find the article I'm looking for in minutes where I
> am unable to after hours of looking. Just luck I
> guess.
>
> So do any of you guys know how I can switch the command
> prompt default startup path back to C:\>?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Busch

Its always been like that for me. It defaults to the %userprofile% env
variable. As mentioned, change the "start in" option with a shortcut...

NuTs

"Mike Busch" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:68aa01c3b38f$74ec14f0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> OK some of my users were having problems with SVChost.
> potentially blaster or some strain of blaster, who knows.
> jury is still out on that one. To remedy the problem I
> updated all the PCs with the latest and greatest service
> packs, security patches , and MS updates. So life is
> great right? You'd think my users would be happy. No,
> now I'm getting copmplaints about the command prompt.
>
> My users use a few command line programs and after the
> update when they start up cmd.exe it no longer goes to the
> C:\>. It now goes to C:\Documents and settings\%username%
> >. I have scoured the KB b ut haven't found a document
> that addresses this issue. But some of you guys can
> always find the article I'm looking for in minutes where I
> am unable to after hours of looking. Just luck I
> guess.
>
> So do any of you guys know how I can switch the command
> prompt default startup path back to C:\>?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Busch

Mike Busch wrote:

> OK some of my users were having problems with SVChost.
> potentially blaster or some strain of blaster, who knows.
> jury is still out on that one. To remedy the problem I
> updated all the PCs with the latest and greatest service
> packs, security patches , and MS updates. So life is
> great right? You'd think my users would be happy. No,
> now I'm getting copmplaints about the command prompt.
>
> My users use a few command line programs and after the
> update when they start up cmd.exe it no longer goes to the
> C:\>. It now goes to C:\Documents and settings\%username%
> >. I have scoured the KB b ut haven't found a document
> that addresses this issue. But some of you guys can
> always find the article I'm looking for in minutes where I
> am unable to after hours of looking. Just luck I
> guess.

Hi

It was most likely MS03-045 (KB828035) that introduced this "problem":

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...280a%40phx.gbl




--
torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page
Scripting Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter

OK, good call on the shortcut startin. And that works for
the shortcut under accessories. but if I go run->cmd
(which most of my users do) I get the same problem.

Mike


>-----Original Message-----
>Its always been like that for me. It defaults to the %
userprofile% env
>variable. As mentioned, change the "start in" option with
a shortcut...
>
>NuTs
>
>"Mike Busch" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
in message
>news:68aa01c3b38f$74ec14f0$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> OK some of my users were having problems with SVChost.
>> potentially blaster or some strain of blaster, who
knows.
>> jury is still out on that one. To remedy the problem I
>> updated all the PCs with the latest and greatest service
>> packs, security patches , and MS updates. So life is
>> great right? You'd think my users would be happy. No,
>> now I'm getting copmplaints about the command prompt.
>>
>> My users use a few command line programs and after the
>> update when they start up cmd.exe it no longer goes to
the
>> C:\>. It now goes to C:\Documents and settings\%
username%
>> >. I have scoured the KB b ut haven't found a document
>> that addresses this issue. But some of you guys can
>> always find the article I'm looking for in minutes
where I
>> am unable to after hours of looking. Just luck I
>> guess.
>>
>> So do any of you guys know how I can switch the command
>> prompt default startup path back to C:\>?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike Busch
>
>
>.
>

If they run CMD a lot, it's faster to create a start list or desktop
shortcut. Even faster if you put it on the first level of the start list.

Rick

"Mike Busch" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:040801c3b3a5$b76f8260$(E-Mail Removed)...
> OK, good call on the shortcut startin. And that works for
> the shortcut under accessories. but if I go run->cmd
> (which most of my users do) I get the same problem.
>
> Mike
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Its always been like that for me. It defaults to the %
> userprofile% env
> >variable. As mentioned, change the "start in" option with
> a shortcut...
> >
> >NuTs
> >
> >"Mike Busch" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
> in message
> >news:68aa01c3b38f$74ec14f0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> OK some of my users were having problems with SVChost.
> >> potentially blaster or some strain of blaster, who
> knows.
> >> jury is still out on that one. To remedy the problem I
> >> updated all the PCs with the latest and greatest service
> >> packs, security patches , and MS updates. So life is
> >> great right? You'd think my users would be happy. No,
> >> now I'm getting copmplaints about the command prompt.
> >>
> >> My users use a few command line programs and after the
> >> update when they start up cmd.exe it no longer goes to
> the
> >> C:\>. It now goes to C:\Documents and settings\%
> username%
> >> >. I have scoured the KB b ut haven't found a document
> >> that addresses this issue. But some of you guys can
> >> always find the article I'm looking for in minutes
> where I
> >> am unable to after hours of looking. Just luck I
> >> guess.
> >>
> >> So do any of you guys know how I can switch the command
> >> prompt default startup path back to C:\>?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Mike Busch
> >
> >
> >.
> >

thanks so much. that fixed the issue. You'd think MS
would put a KB article up about it. Regardless, looks
like they answered your question directly. Thanks for the
help.

Mike


>-----Original Message-----
>
>Hi
>
>It was most likely MS03-045 (KB828035) that introduced
this "problem":
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...=UTF-8&oe=UTF-
8&threadm=039c01c39f41%24acfc4390%24a501280a%40phx.gbl
>
>
>
>
>--
>torgeir
>Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
>Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version
of the 1328 page
>Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter
>
>
>.
>