I realize there are tips here for the 2142 shortcut optimization, as well as TS shortcuts, and probably some thread somewhere about removing the movies. But they are all in different places and it took me some time to finally get my 2142 launch down to a tee so I thought I'd share the results of my troubleshooting and the entire setup that I have going now.

1) The bf2142 movies can most easily be disabled by renaming the folder - most other threads will tell you to rename each file.

simply rename yourgamedir\mods\bf2142\Movies\ to "Movies1" or something else.

2) The bf2142 shortcut can be set up to launch with special parameters, I won't go into that much detail as it's stickied, but here's mine:

bf2142.exe +menu 1 +eaAccountName purplehaze42 +eaAccountPassword passwordhere +soldierName Housekeeper007 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1280 +szy 1024

3) Also the TS shortcut can be optimized as follows(these are all the same parameters used to join in regular TS):

TeamSpeak.exe 67.19.106.94?nickname=HouseKeeper?loginname=housek eeper.18836?password=urpasshere?channel=Battlefiel d 2142


Batch file to launch all
What I have just done today is combined these two shorctuts into a quick batch file as well as wegame, here it is, pasted directly from the .bat file (if you don't know, simply create a text file using your version of the text below in notepad and save it as .bat instead of .txt, now you have a batch file).

'
start /d "c:\Program Files\Teamspeak2_RC2\" TeamSpeak.exe 67.19.106.94?nickname=HouseKeeper?loginname=housek eeper.18836?password=urpasshere?channel=Battlefiel d 2142

start /d "g:\Wegame\" wegame.exe
pause


start /d "g:\2142\" bf2142.exe +menu 1 +eaAccountName purplehaze42 +eaAccountPassword urpasshere +soldierName Housekeeper007 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1280 +szy 1024

'

the reason for the pause is that wegame currently doesn't support auto-login, so at the pause I have to enter my wegame pass, minimize wegame, then hit any key and 2142 will launch.

So in summary I click one one file to launch TS, wegame, and 2142, and bypass the movies, straight to the soldier screen for my default soldier. Potentially (not including the wegame bypass), I would only have to double click once, then click 2 more times to join on a buddy thats playing on TG, and I'd be in there like THAT, presto, with enough time left over to bake everyone in my squad a cake.

Less time spent launching the game = more time baking cake and playing on TG. WIN! Anyways hope that helps someone who may have missed one of these steps or just didn't realize how many potential cakes they could be baking during their saved time.