XP and IPconfig..Shortcut?

[surreal]

I want to put a shortcut on my desktop to IPCONFIG ?
XP doesn't seem to like that idea.. Any thoughts>

I have tried also to with notepad, typeipconfig /all pause
and save it as a bat file..

Oh and how in the heck do I close my dos window in XP?

[Whir]

Close with 'exit'.

Don't know about the open with a shortcut thing though.

-Whir

[surreal]

Doh!

[storm2k]

does xp still support pif files?

that's how you used to do dos shortcuts in older versions of windows...

[hirschY]

copy this into a ipconfig.bat file
right click on the desktop, and select new text file
then rename it to ipconfig.bat
then right click on it and select edit
cut and paste
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

echo off
echo **here ya go!!**
pause
cd\
ipconfig /all

echo **do ya feel better now?**

pause



<<<<<<<<<<<
It at leasts works for me
Also, you can click on the X to close the dos windows too.....

[surreal]

VERY Kewl! thanks it worked fo me too!

When I try to use the x it get the ole knock it off or you loose everything don't do it this way warning!

(I could have swore I tried exit too,, but sheesh I prolly typoed it.. doh! )

HEY! it's magic! Your file even closed with the X

[^hyd^]

I have one for my NT box, it's just a shortcut to cmd.exe

target for the shortcut is: %SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe /k ipconfig /all

no quotes or anything.

cya!

oh, heres a pic to show it better!

Edit-> oops, good thing i putthe pic up, got the path wrong! fixed it now tho!

[hirschY]

^hyd^
very nice, I like yours better

[lynchmob]

That's what I do.R-click the desktop and choose New>shortcut, type cmd.exe and name it Cmd
lynch

[^hyd^]

thanks hirschy! ya, i got tired of going thru a command prompt on nt to get the ip, so I played around a little and came up with that!

a batch file is nice too though because then you can make a menu for choosing from different dos utilities to run if you wanted.

cyas!