diff --git a/reactos/base/shell/cmd/cmd.c b/reactos/base/shell/cmd/cmd.c
index cdaa3f51bdf..b201f672090 100644
--- a/reactos/base/shell/cmd/cmd.c
+++ b/reactos/base/shell/cmd/cmd.c
@@ -1603,6 +1603,53 @@ ShowCommands (VOID)
 }
 #endif
 
+void
+InitTitle()
+{
+	STARTUPINFOW StartupInfo;
+	LPWSTR lpFileName;
+	WCHAR szTitle[MAX_PATH+1];
+
+	GetStartupInfoW(&StartupInfo);
+
+	if (StartupInfo.lpTitle)
+	{
+		/* Are we started from a shortcut? */
+		if (StartupInfo.dwFlags & 0x800)
+		{
+			UINT len;
+
+			/* We are started from a shortcut, use the file name only */
+			lpFileName = wcsrchr(StartupInfo.lpTitle, '\\');
+			if (lpFileName == NULL)
+			{
+				lpFileName = StartupInfo.lpTitle;
+			}
+
+			/* Drop file extension, we simply assume 3 chars extension */
+			len = wcslen(lpFileName) - 4;
+			if (len > 0)
+			{
+				len = min(len, MAX_PATH);
+				wcsncpy(szTitle, lpFileName, len);
+				szTitle[len] = 0;
+				SetConsoleTitleW(szTitle);
+				return;
+			}
+		}
+
+		/* Use lpTitle member of STARTUPINFO */
+		SetConsoleTitleW(StartupInfo.lpTitle);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	/* Set executable path as window title */
+	GetModuleFileNameW(NULL, szTitle, MAX_PATH);
+	SetConsoleTitleW(szTitle);
+	return;
+}
+
+
 /*
  * set up global initializations and process parameters
  *
@@ -1625,6 +1672,11 @@ Initialize (int argc, const TCHAR* argv[])
 	osvi.dwOSVersionInfoSize = sizeof(OSVERSIONINFO);
 	GetVersionEx (&osvi);
 
+	/* FIXME: Doesn't work in ros yet, because of missing functionality of ShellExecute.
+	   See bug 2743. Please unif as soon as it get's fixed. */
+#if 0
+	InitTitle();
+#endif
 	/* Some people like to run ReactOS cmd.exe on Win98, it helps in the
 	 * build process. So don't link implicitly against ntdll.dll, load it
 	 * dynamically instead */