Now I have to ask for help

[Geert Janssens]

On 07-02-13 15:22, Geert Janssens wrote:
> 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.
Additionally if you would want separate shortcuts for each of your data 
files, you could insert the filename to open instead of --nofile here 
(using quotes around the whole path to the file in case it contains spaces).

Geert