Hi Glenn,

Thanks for the reply, I tried the dos 'start' command in my script but to no avail. The properties of the orignal gimp shortcut point to "%USERPROFILE%\\My Documents\My Pictures" in the 'start in' section of the shortcut with "C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\bin\gimp-2.2.exe" as the target.

Code:

COPY "f:\PACKAGES\gimp2.2\gimp.kix" "C:\gimp.kix"

If Not Exist("c:\gimp.kix")
  F:
  CD "\packages\gimp2.2"
  Shell ".\gimp2.exe"
Else
  C:
 CD "\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\bin"
  Shell "start \Program Files\GIMP-2.0\bin\gimp-2.2.exe"
EndIf


Regards

Steve.
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