Say you have a command prompt shortcut. You set it to start in a particular folder by editing the properties as shown above. Then you also set the Advanced properties to launch it as Administrator.
You launch the shortcut and it puts you in windows\System32. Basically blows away the config you did and decides to put you in the system32 folder. Countless times, I find myself irritated by this behavior. I launch the prompt, i type in a command like Dir, and it goes on and on listing the system32 contents. I have to change back to the folder I want to proceed with any work that I wanted to.
My good friends tell me that this is a "security" feature. But this is annoying to me.
In any case, the simple fix is to add "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k cd /d c:\users\public" By adding the configuration of the "Start in" folder a second time, the command prompt would behave the way you want to behave.
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