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| From | Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10 |
| Subject | Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered |
| Date | 2025-10-08 10:14 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <10c5a2e$1g628$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <10c3i1q$1387m$1@dont-email.me> |
Thanks for ALL the replies, I've read and appreciate them all, but I
realise now that the problem is slightly more complicated than first I
described ...
On 2025-10-07 18:18, Java Jive wrote:
> In my Windows 7 standard build, I have Command Prompt shortcuts on the
> Desktop & Start Menu that open in D:\Temp. After upgrading the build to
> Windows 10, if I pin them to the Start Menu they open in my user
> profile, which is utterly useless as I never store anything there. I've
> tried several different things, but nothing has worked except changing
> the shortcut in ...
>
> C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories
>
> ... but that will change *all* Command Prompts, which definitely is NOT
> what I want.
>
> This is over and beyond the previously well advertised bug that in
> Windows 10 if you open any command prompt as an Administrator, it always
> opens in ...
>
> C:\Windows\System32
>
> ... regardless of where the shortcut tells it to open, and no longer
> accepts dragging and dropping of directory or file names to add their
> text to a command, so you have to go through the tedious process of
> dragging them to the Run box, copying it from there, and pasting it into
> the Command Prompt.
>
> Can anyone suggest a solution to this?
Many have suggested running a batch file or command with the /K switch,
and I do this with another command prompt which runs GetIPlayer, and,
even when pinned to the Start Menu, this actually still works in every
respect. The command in the shortcut for this is ...
%ComSpec% /K C:\Programs\GFV-GIP-Init.bat
... which BATch file first changes the directory and then defines some
DosKey abbreviations for commands to launch GetIPlayer, GetFlashVideos
(but I haven't used those for a long while, because I don't think it
works any more), YouTubeDownload, and YouTubeDownloadPlus. But what is
most relevant here is that every aspect of the original shortcut is
preserved, including the different background colour of the command
prompt and the dimensions of its window. With the subject of my
original complaint, none of this happens, besides opening in the wrong
directory, the window is also the wrong size, the default of the
original windows shortcuts.
Another Windows 10 bug, which I've complained about before, is that if
you have another shortcut with a similar name, Windows 10 gets muddled
as to which the pin refers, so if I <rt-click> the shortcut that
launches Firefox with my normal profile, which shortcut is in my User
Start Menu, it actually pins a different shortcut launching an older
version of Firefox with a debugging profile, because for some reason or
other it finds that first in its heirarchy, probably because it's in the
All Users profile C:\ProgramData, not my user profile.
So the whole thing is a bloody, buggy mess, but yes, I think the answer
is going to have to be to define a short batch file to set the folder,
and with luck the window will then have the correct dimensions also.
> In the meantime, yet again I ask: "Where do they go to find such dregs
> of humanity that their work is as crap as this?"
Indeed.
Thanks again to all.
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Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered "...winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 10:52 -0400
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Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-10-08 13:31 +0100
Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-10-08 05:15 +0200
Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> - 2025-10-08 10:24 +0200
Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-10-09 03:30 +0200
Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> - 2025-10-09 12:42 +0200
Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered Stan Brown <someone@example.com> - 2025-10-09 10:43 -0700
Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-10-10 17:41 +0200
Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-10-10 23:42 -0400
Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-10-12 18:44 +0200
Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-10-08 09:26 +0100
Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-10-09 03:43 +0200
Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-10-09 10:09 +0100
Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-10-10 17:46 +0200
Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-10-08 07:25 -0400
Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-10-09 03:50 +0200
Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-10-09 10:28 +0100
Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-10-10 17:54 +0200
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Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-10-08 10:14 +0100
Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-10-08 14:59 +0100
Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-10-08 17:00 +0100
Re: Latest Win10 FU Encountered Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-10-08 15:23 +0000
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