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I am trying to set up multiple steam accounts, and you can instantly launch an account by making a shortcut for it, blah blah blah. The shortcuts works fine but I want to make a batch file to select which account to use, then launch the shortcut for that account. For some reason I can't find out how to launch a shortcut from a batch file. I have searched and searched but I cannot find how. Everything seems to work up until launching the shortcut which does nothing.
Here is my code
@echo off echo Which steam account to use? echo --------------------------- cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam" TIMEOUT 2 >null echo 1. user1 TIMEOUT 2 >null echo 2. user2 set /p account="Select a number. " echo %account% TIMEOUT 2 >null if %account%==1 ( echo Account "user1" selected. TIMEOUT 3 >null start "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\user1.lnk" ) IF %account%==2 ( echo Account "user2" selected. TIMEOUT 3 >null start "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\user2.lnk" ) Running Windows 8.
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Right-click the desktop and select New > Shortcut. Choose a location, ideally the same as your batch file, and click Next. Then enter a name for the shortcut and click Finish. Now right-click your new shortcut file, select Properties, and update the Target field to point to your batch file.
Run the application using a shortcut to cmd /kRight-click where you want the shortcut created and choose New → Shortcut. Type cmd.exe /k string , where string is the command you want to execute, then click Next. Give the shortcut an appropriate name and click Finish.
To do this, go to File > Save As, navigate to the desktop, and type the name of your shortcut followed by . bat (for example, Chrome and Steam. bat) in the File name field. In the Save as type field, click the dropdown menu and select All files.
The help for start contains this tidbit:
START ["title"] [/D path] [/I] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/SEPARATE | /SHARED] [/LOW | /NORMAL | /HIGH | /REALTIME | /ABOVENORMAL | /BELOWNORMAL] [/NODE <NUMA node>] [/AFFINITY <hex affinity mask>] [/WAIT] [/B] [command/program] [parameters] "title" Title to display in window title bar. In other words the first quoted string will be used for the title. To launch something with quotes, you need to provide a quoted string before it, like this:
start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\user1.lnk" Since it's not a program with a console window, the contents don't matter, they won't be used.
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One more possible approach is to get the target property of the shortcut and run it. Here's how to do it with shortcutjs.bat
setlocal for /f "tokens=1,* delims=:" %%a in ( 'shortcutjs.bat' ) do ( set "%%~a=%%~b" ) echo target is %target% call %target% endlocal If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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