[Tutor] How to get Win XP command prompt to open at C:\Python23>

[Dick Moores]

Tim Peters wrote at 23:16 7/23/2004:
>What, exactly, do you do to open a DOS box ("command prompt window")?
>There are 100 ways to do everything on Windows, and answers depend on
>the specifics of the ways you've stumbled into.

I had a shortcut key in a folder on my start menu with a shortcut key set.


>For example, I put a cmd.exe shortcut icon on my desktop, and if you
>did too then it's easy:  right-click on the icon, select Properties,
>go to the Shortcut tab, type C:\Python23 in the "Start in:" box, click
>Apply, then click OK.  From then on that shortcut icon will cd to
>C:\Python23 all by itself when you double-click it.  You can also
>adjust the size of the window, font, and number of lines of scrollback
>history this way.

Thank you! Thank you! Works like a charm. But I'm curious again. How do 
you make those other adjustments?

Dick Moores