Ive made a shortcut to a .bat file and edited the properties of the shortcut to change the font, size and location of the window. If i try to run the shortcut with another bat file my bat file opens in a normal window and all my lovely settings are gone. Is there a way to open my bat file with the shortcut settings? START "" "C:\programX.lnk" doesnt work...

rundll32 shell32.dll,ShellExec_RunDLL "C:\prog.lnk"

Hi Klint, Didn't work for me rundll32 shell32.dll,ShellExec_RunDLL "C:\prog.lnk" (I copied pasted it in the batch file) Tried it with both batch file and a link called prog.lnk in in root C:\ and got the error msg saying: ""Windows cannot find "C:\prog.lnk" make sure you typed the name correctly..."" I have made some other basic batch files succesfully but I'm stuck with this one, am I missing smt here? "Imagination is more important than knowledge..." -Albert Einstein

Oh nevermind, I got into the cmd and explore c:\ and found out that my "prog.lnk" (that I created with righ click>create a shortcut then typed www.google.com) its name was actually "prog.url"! so I just wrote in the batch file: prog.url And it opened the link to google in my Opera Browser! Then I created a shortcut to Winamp (using the same method)and "dir" in cmd C: and found out that the shortcut was Winamp.lnk, (I should have known before, a shorcut to a program is always going to tave the extension ".lnk" while for a website a ".url". So I went ahead and edit my batch file with: winamp.lnk (both, batch file and winamp.lnk were in the c:\) And it opened winamp! then I tried with your solution: rundll32 shell32.dll,ShellExec_RunDLL "C:\winamp.lnk" And it worked as well! Cheers!!! PS: These tests were performed in WinXPPro "Imagination is more important than knowledge..." -Albert Einstein