So here's a question. I'm looking for a one-click desktop. When I sit down to work I open several applications. It's no big deal, but it would be nice if I could just do a 1-click and open them all. I open a file manager, RM, a text editor, an image editor, and a browser, and ideally they would all open to specific folders or files. There must be an app or easy macro for this but I haven't been able to find one. It would just make starting and stopping a lot easier when I want to fit file work in or have to jump out to do something else that demands the resources and then come back. Arthur Dirks adirks@dirksdesigns.com

That's a perfect use of a batch file. Batch files are plain text files with the ".bat" extension and they are executable. So you might create a batch file named "genealogy.bat" with your desired commands. I don't know what version of Windows you're using, and I'm not terribly familiar with the latest versions (since I use a Mac), but a batch file is a script (plain text) file that contains commands, which can include commands to open specific programs. Whether the specific programs can open a specific document from the command line argument depends on the programs, but at the very least, you could have a batch file that opened RM, the text editor, etc. The commands to include in the batch file would be essentially the same as that in the various shortcuts you use to open the programs individually. An example of a command line to open a text editor with 3 files named file1, file2, file3: "C:\Program Files\Editpad\EditPad.exe" file1 file2 file3 To open the IrfanView program with specific files: "C:\Program Files\IRView\i_view32.exe" file1.jpg file2.jpg So you might start out with a batch file with three lines like this: "C:\Program Files\Editpad\EditPad.exe" file1 file2 file3 "C:\Program Files\IRView\i_view32.exe" file1.jpg file2.jpg "C:\Program Files\RootsMagic\RootsMagic.exe" For details on batch files, google "batch file tutorials" and you'll find lots of help, such as this: http://commandwindows.com/batch.htm Hope this helps. On 8/5/12 11:07 AM, Arthur Dirks wrote: > So here's a question. I'm looking for a one-click desktop. When I sit down > to work I open several applications. It's no big deal, but it would be nice > if I could just do a 1-click and open them all. I open a file manager, RM, a > text editor, an image editor, and a browser, and ideally they would all open > to specific folders or files. There must be an app or easy macro for this > but I haven't been able to find one. It would just make starting and > stopping a lot easier when I want to fit file work in or have to jump out to > do something else that demands the resources and then come back. > > > > Arthur Dirks > > adirks@dirksdesigns.com > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >