Microsoft KB Archive/200469

= Effects of Using the START Command at a Command Prompt =

Article ID: 200469

Article Last Modified on 2/20/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

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This article was previously published under Q200469



SYMPTOMS
You can open a folder in a window by typing

start

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.



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



RESOLUTION
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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