This sounds like it should be so simple... I must be dumb.
All I want is to make a windows short-cut that opens Powershell into a specific directory:
I'm using the target:
%SystemRoot%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
-noexit -command {cd c:/path/to/open}
Put it just spits out the command as text.
Use this command.
powershell.exe -noexit -command "cd c:\temp"
-NoExit
: Do not exit after running startup commands.