Now I have to ask for help

[Geert Janssens]

On 07-02-13 15:05, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
>
>> This is what the target of the shortcut looks like (in XP)
>>
>> .....
>> start gnucash-bin
>>
>>
>> PS: As people can see by this, it's really still old MS-DOS underneath.
>>
> I spoke too soon! That's what it looked like on this old desktop 
> (older gnucash version) but with the newer desktop versions I have 
> ready to go on the laptops the target is just gnucash.exe  , no 
> intermediate BAT file to edit. Hmmmm ----- OK, hopefully somebody here 
> knows how to fix this. I have zero experience setting up a script for 
> this environment but have for many others so my best guess is:
>
In your shortcut, simply append --nofile to gnucash.exe ( but outside of 
the quotes if windows has added quotes). That should do the trick. It 
does on my Windows XP system at least.

> a) Create a file (using notepad) named nofile.bat. The contents of 
> this file would be a line either "RUN GNUCASH.EXE --nofile" or "START 
> GNUCASH.EXE --nofile"
> b) Create a shortcut to this file. Named something like "gnucash nofile".
> c) I assume that file could live in the gnucash.bin directory as 
> should cause no harm is nothing (existing) references it. Like where 
> the start script is in the older versions.
>
> Is that the correct? Does somebody know whether the command should be 
> "run" or "start"?
>
None of this should be necessary.
> Michael
>
>
Geert