how to tell vlc to use a different set of configuration files

Ok so I tried i have a 3 monitor setup. I want to run vlc 3 instances to 3 different monitors. I setup my preference and copied the vlcrc and vlc-qt-interface.ini file to a folder say vlc2 and i tried running a bat file with the following vlc.exe –config c:vlc2vlcrc and even vlc.exe –config=”c:vlc2vlcrc” but no matter what i do it seems to still be getting the settings from the orignal location %appdata%vlc what am I doing wrong?