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Quick Launch

Post by n00bCoder » Sun Jan 23, 2005 3:49 pm

In my quest to be eternally lazy, i discovered that the mere effort needed to double click the macroquest shortcut and the everquest shortcut was just too much... so i created a batch file that runs them both with just one double click... ill prolly figgure out how to do it in one click soon :D anyways if your interested, here's how i did it.

1.) to make it easier, just make a new folder somewhere, like in your MQ2 folder or wherever you prefer. I called mine EQEnhanced but you can do whatever.

2.) to this folder, add two shortcuts, one of EverQuest and one of Macroquest. Title them whatever you want, it really doesn't matter. I called them 1 and 2 for ease, but again, it doesn't matter.

3.) create a .txt file, just right click in the folder and go to New and then to Text Document. Then type the following code in the file:

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@echo off
Start C:\MQ2\EQEnhanced\1.lnk
Start C:\MQ2\EQEnhanced\2.lnk
::Note:: change the C:\MQ2\EQEnhanced\1.lnk to your directory and shortcut location that you put the EQ and MQ2 shortcuts in, just keep the .lnk part at the end of the file, thats the file extension for a shortcut, and if your line has a space in it you have to put the C:\MQ2\EQEnhanced\1.lnk in Quotes.

4.) Choose Save As.. under the File menu. Change the Save as Type option to All Files, then you can change the File Name field to whatever you prefer, but you MUST end it with .bat and not .txt (Ex. EQEnhanced.bat). Save the file

5.) Right click the newly created batch (.bat) file and choose Send To and then Desktop (create shortcut. You can change the shortcut settings to whatever you want.

Congrats! your done! just double click the shortcut whenever you want to play EQ, and it doesnt matter if you have MacroQuest running from a previous session, it'll still work fine.
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Post by dedpoet » Mon Jan 24, 2005 8:34 am

ill prolly figgure out how to do it in one click soon
If you're using Win2000 or XP, open up any explorer window. Go to Tools->Folder Options. On the General tab, select "Single-click to open an item".

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Post by wassup » Mon Jan 24, 2005 9:40 am

dedpoet wrote:
ill prolly figgure out how to do it in one click soon
If you're using Win2000 or XP, open up any explorer window. Go to Tools->Folder Options. On the General tab, select "Single-click to open an item".
Or put the short cut on the Quick Launch bar if using XP. I don't remember if 2000 had a Quick Launch bar.

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Post by mackster » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:25 am

Wassup wrote:
dedpoet wrote:
ill prolly figgure out how to do it in one click soon
If you're using Win2000 or XP, open up any explorer window. Go to Tools->Folder Options. On the General tab, select "Single-click to open an item".
Or put the short cut on the Quick Launch bar if using XP. I don't remember if 2000 had a Quick Launch bar.
It does, that's what I use and how I launch MQ and EQ.

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Post by draco » Mon Jan 24, 2005 12:43 pm

Don't stop there add in the shortcuts to WinEQ2.

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Post by magictiger » Mon Jan 24, 2005 7:32 pm

Heh. Why not just put your shortcuts in a folder and add a toolbar to your task bar? :)

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Post by vaman7924 » Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:34 am

Oh just put it in your windows startup MQ@ should always be up an running :-P

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Post by Clueless_Coder » Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:59 am

vaman7924 wrote:Oh just put it in your windows startup MQ@ should always be up an running :-P
TY :P

That's what I've been doing since day one. MQ2, EQWA and WinEQ2 shortcuts have a perma place in my startup.

I was kinda wondering why all the fuss bout quick launches and shortcuts etc. :P

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Post by n00bCoder » Wed Jan 26, 2005 4:32 pm

yeah i know bout that.. i just like messing around with coding n figgured there might be someone out there who would like to do it this way. Great ways to be lazy tho! keep on brainstorming lol
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Post by ethelby » Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:02 pm

Wassup wrote:
dedpoet wrote:
ill prolly figgure out how to do it in one click soon
If you're using Win2000 or XP, open up any explorer window. Go to Tools->Folder Options. On the General tab, select "Single-click to open an item".
Or put the short cut on the Quick Launch bar if using XP. I don't remember if 2000 had a Quick Launch bar.
Quick launch is available on win95/NT4 if the "desktop enhancement" included in IE4 is installed. Otherwise it is available natively in Win98 or later.