how to change the original startup dir of cmd?

[Laurince Yerh]

in a newly installed win2k, the startup folder of cmd is C:\
(here C: is the drive where i install my win2k.)

after i make some tunes for my personal preference,
the startup folder of cmd changed to
"\Documents and Settings\Administrator\"

how can i restore it to c:\ ??
don't tell me to set registry
HKCU\ms\command processor\autorun to "cd \\"

after i took this way, all my bat programs that depend
on the path it's "Starts in" stop working

so what's right way?

 

[Dave Patrick]

On the shortcut's shortcut property tab set the "Start In:" directory to C:\


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[Mark V]

in a newly installed win2k, the startup folder of cmd is C:\
(here C: is the drive where i install my win2k.)

after i make some tunes for my personal preference,
the startup folder of cmd changed to
"\Documents and Settings\Administrator\"

how can i restore it to c:\ ??
don't tell me to set registry
HKCU\ms\command processor\autorun to "cd \\"

after i took this way, all my bat programs that depend
on the path it's "Starts in" stop working

Well the "Autorun" is effective and useful. Otherwise if a shortcut
set the "Start In" value.

Your batch problem is not specific to where the CMD.EXE session is
started (Current Drive/Directory), but rather to your batch files
themselves. It is poor practice to use relative paths in batch (or
any other language) and instead all Paths should be Fully Qualified
(FQP). This is crutial and basic and you should fix the batch files
as a separate issue. ...then use an AUTORUN= to fix the "open in"
for CMD.EXE. And the value I would use is "CD /D C:\"