I am trying to set up multiple steam accounts, and you can instantly launch an account by making a shortcut for it, blah blah blah. The shortcuts works fine but I want to make a batch file to select which account to use, then launch the shortcut for that account. For some reason I can't find out how to launch a shortcut from a batch file. I have searched and searched but I cannot find how. Everything seems to work up until launching the shortcut which does nothing.
Here is my code
@echo off
echo Which steam account to use?
echo ---------------------------
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam"
TIMEOUT 2 >null
echo 1. user1
TIMEOUT 2 >null
echo 2. user2
set /p account="Select a number. "
echo %account%
TIMEOUT 2 >null
if %account%==1 (
echo Account "user1" selected.
TIMEOUT 3 >null
start "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\user1.lnk"
)
IF %account%==2 (
echo Account "user2" selected.
TIMEOUT 3 >null
start "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\user2.lnk"
)
Running Windows 8.
The help for start contains this tidbit:
START ["title"] [/D path] [/I] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/SEPARATE | /SHARED]
[/LOW | /NORMAL | /HIGH | /REALTIME | /ABOVENORMAL | /BELOWNORMAL]
[/NODE <NUMA node>] [/AFFINITY <hex affinity mask>] [/WAIT] [/B]
[command/program] [parameters]
"title" Title to display in window title bar.
In other words the first quoted string will be used for the title. To launch something with quotes, you need to provide a quoted string before it, like this:
start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\user1.lnk"
Since it's not a program with a console window, the contents don't matter, they won't be used.
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