I would prefer that a console app would default to
multithreaded debug. warning level 4. build browse information. no resource folder.
Does anyone know of any technique that would allow me to create a console app, with my desired options, without manually setting it.
Yes, you can do that. What you want is to create your own project template. You can then select that template from the New Project wizard. I wasn’t able to location documentation on how to create a project template in Visual Studio 6, but this MSDN article explains the procedure for Visual Studio 2005. Hopefully you will find those instructions to sufficiently similar.