I see. I was talking about shortcut to the dos program. It has the same properties as in Win98. Try following: Create batch file, say mycmd.bat and put shorcut to it on your desktop

REM mycmd.bat
Call mybatchfile.bat
cmd

Now run command prompt from this shortcut.

There is another way:
- Create shortcut to any DOS program. It's properties dailog box should look the same as under Win98.
- Replace command line with C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.EXE
- Change name and Start In to your liking
- Fill Batch File field

>Sergey,
> there is no Program tab on my command prompt icon properites. I'm running Windows 2000 and I see no "DOS" prompt only "Command" prompt. Am I missing something here?
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>And yes, I should have put the two questions seperate. I had a problem with the modem when I tried to dial in. Thanks.
>
>John
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>> In Win 98 etc. you could run a batch file when starting a dos session. I cannot find a way to do that with Win 2K. I have to run the command prompt and then manually run a batch file. I do this because we have several programs and each one is in a different area of the server and need different path and drive mappings.
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>>What do you mean? There is the 'Batch file:' field on the Program tab of the Properties dialog box for DOS shortcut .
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>>>Thanks all,