I was accustomed to selecting the Properties option from either the CMD window or the shortcut icon for launching it. What Ramesh said — and I overlooked — was to select the DEFAULTS option from the CMD window menu.

Yes, that changes the default for all subsequent CMD windows however they are launched, and without the dangerous microsurgery of using the Registry Editor.

I’m still not sure whether I can get my users to accept the step of editing the Defaults, but it does have the advantage of only being required once, rather than being needed for every window in the batch, for every run of the script.

I would still prefer to find a way to have the script make the setting, if that’s possible.

Also, while I’m at it, to specify the Window Position (a different one for each window launched by the script, and not the ones the System chooses when it automatically positions the windows…). But maybe this is a question for another forum.

To complicate the matter, the script launches a number of CMD windows; they come up with default settings only and it would be impractical — to say the least — to go to the properties menu for each one.

I could supply a shortcut/icon to run the script, and I could pre-configure it with the desired properties, but I have not found a way to make the newly-launched windows inherit those properties. Likewise when I run the script from a pre-configured CMD window, the properties are not inherited.

My other alternative would be to include something — like a switch to CMD or START — that would set the QuickEdit option in the line of the batch-script, but so far I haven’t found a way to do that either.

And, of course, using an alternative shell-language (BASH, CygWin or the like) is not an option.

Any advice would be gratefully appreciated.

Thanks in advance.