Effects of Using the START Command at a Command Prompt

ID: Q200469

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You can open a folder in a window by typing

start foldername

at a command prompt. However, if a folder named New Folder exists and you type

start "new folder"

at the command prompt, a new command window with the caption New Folder is opened instead of the New Folder folder.

The specification for the START command indicates that the first quoted string becomes the title for the new window.

To start a new window with a string that requires quotation marks, type:

start "" "New Folder"

This is also true for the following:

C:\>start "New Text Document.txt" to start "" "New Text Document.txt"

or

C:\>start "New Bitmap Image.bmp" to start "" "New Bitmap Image.bmp"

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Keywords : kbui
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb