Maximize Remote Application

[Timothy S. Paulin]

Hello,

I am trying to auto-logon and auto-open a program from a WinXP computer
using Client Connection Manager to create a connection to a Win2000
Terminal Services Server. I can auto-logon without a problem. I can
open the application without a problem. I am opening up an access
database using Access command-line options from inside a .bat file. My
..bat file calls access, calls the database to open, calls the user name
and password. All of the that works fine. My problem, though it might
seem very insignificant is: I am trying to get the program that is
called from a .bat file to open up it maximized. I have tried to have
the .bat file open a .lnk file, but it will not recognize how to open
that type of program. If it would be able to open the .lnk file, I
could tell it to open it up maximized as that is a setting of a
shortcut. There are no command-line options/switches for access that I
could put in my .bat file that would let me open maximized. Inside of
Access, there are settings to open the initial form up maximized, but
nothing to tell the application itself to open up maximized.

I guess because there are several technologies involved, I really don't
know where to go from here. I have already investigated .pif files from
the Windows Help function on the Windows 2000 server. I have looked on
the website listed here as http://hem.fyristorg.com/vera/IT. I have
looked on the Microsoft Terminal Services Website. I have searched
through this newsgroup.

Any Ideas, please respond in this newsgroup or write me at

(e-mail address removed) (remove NOSpAM)

Thank you,

Tim Paulin

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

How exactly do you start your access application from your first
bat file? Have you tried to start it with "start /max"?

Example:
start /max notepad.exe test.txt
starts notepad maximized. So in your case probably something like:

start /max msaccess.exe your_database.mdb