[pmmail-list] Selecting startup for PMMail 2000

[Gregory L. Marx]

On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 20:03:28 -0500, Hazen Woods wrote:

>From Windows Explorer, find the EXE you want ...
Then right-click and hold the mouse button down while dragging it to wherever you want the ShortCut to reside ...
When you release the mouse button a context menu will popup ... Select CREATE SHORTCUT ...

Then you can right-click on the ShortCut and select PROPERTIES and modify the various parameters ...

Hope this helps ...
Gregory L. Marx

>Ok I'll buy that.  Next how can I point an application to the shortcut
>rather than to the executable?
>
>TIA
>
>On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 13:03:41 -0400 (EDT), Gregory L. Marx wrote:
>
>>>On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 21:28:25 -0500, Hazen Woods wrote:
>>>
>>><snip>
>>>
>>>>In Win2000 Pro the "working directory" is referred to as "Start from"
>>>>and there is no "Start from" in the properties of the executable icon
>>>>but only from the "shortcut" icon (what OS/2 calls a shadow - I think)
>>>
>>>You're not supposed to be looking at the PROPERTIES of the EXE file ...
>>>Modifications on ANY program execution MUST be done to the windows SHORTCUT ...
>>>
>>>That's just the way it is ...
>>>Hope this helps ...
>>>
>>>Gregory L. Marx
>>>
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