Make a shortcut to edit your Profile

[Plasma2002]

If youve wanted to edit the htm file to your info, but its just too much of a hassle to go in and find the info.htm file everytime, then this is for you


All you gotta do is make a shortcut to it. (usally on the desktop, but you can put it where ever you want.)


But if you were just to create a regular shortcut to the info.htm file, then it would open up in internet explorer everytime... which isnt what you want.

You would want to edit it in notepad. (or your favorite text editor)



So to make the shortcut open in notepad everytime, what you need to do is make the shortcut to notepad.exe, and NOT the htm file itself. Then thats where the magic of command line arguments comes in :wink:

1) make a shortcut to notepad.exe (or your own editor) and put it on your desktop. You can move it later, but put it on your desktop for now. (usually the notepad.exe is in c:\windows )

2) right click the new shortcut and go to properties. In the first box, you will see the command line that opens notepad. That is the target field.

3) in the target field, put your cursor on the LAST space and then after one single space, type the full location to the info.htm file.

so if i were on Windows 98, the info.htm file is located in c:\windows\application data\aim\My_SN\info.htm

The code I would put for the FULL target window would look like this:

C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE c:\windows\application data\aim\poolcleaner666\info.htm

4) press ok, and there ya go. You can now rename that shortcut to whatever you want, and whenever you click it, it will open notepad with the info.htm file ready for editing.

That command line is one of the more basic arguments when opening shortcuts. Almost all the text editors out there support it. And if they dont, then the format would be just a little different. Like try using quotes and such. But usually, that format above will work.


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You can assign a shortcut key to this shortcut. Doing that would allow you to make a simple key combonation anywhere in windows and it would open your info for editing.

You can move that shortcut file into various places so its easy for you to access. For example the quick launch menu. The one right next to the start menu button.

You can add it to your favorites if you access it a lot.

You can add it to the first start menu screen that comes up.

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