Hi, Kitus. When you are creating a shortcut in Windows (or if you edit an
existing shortcut by right-clicking the shortcut icon and select
Properties) you will see a field called "start in". This controls the local
directory for the process started by the shortcut. The local directory is
used when the process tries to access a file by specifying only the
filename "file.typ" without an absolute location in the directory tree
"C:\users\Dwight\Documents\Test\file.typ"
If the StartIn field contains the address of a directory such as
"C:\users\Dwight\Documents\Test" then Windows will look in the specified
directory for files specified without a directory. Careful if there are any
special characters, including blanks - if there are any be sure to enclose
the whole thing in quotes.
Once you have specified the StartIn field, the started process can access
subdirectories of the directory you specified ("/subdirectory/file.typ") or
the parent ("../file.typ") grandparent (../../file.typ) sibling directory
(../sibling/file.typ) and many others. If nothing is specified in StartIn,
then the local directory is initially set to the directory where the target
of the shortcut lives. This is typically the directory containing the
program that the shortcut will start.
-Dwight
On Monday, August 5, 2013 5:45:00 AM UTC-4, kitus wrote:
>
> Hello, what is "windows shortcut property "Start in""?
>
> thanks
>
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