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07-31-2008
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| | Need help creating shortcuts Hi everyone- this is an easy one I think, I just need a little help due to being only a once-in-while vb scripter. I need to create some shortcuts (.lnk files) and want to use vbscript to do it as it seems pretty easy. I'm just having a few issues getting the objLink.TargetPath to behave as I want it to. 1) When I put in forward slashes(/), the shortcut ends up with backlashes (\) 2) I'm having trouble getting paths to 2 items with spaces in the path to work properly. Here are 2 examples of what I would like the Target Path to contain, and cannot get to work properly. 1) "%PROGRAMFILES%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "C:\Program Files \MyApp\TextFile.txt" 2) %systemroot%\explorer.exe /e, /root, \\server1\users\usershare Any help on setting this up appreciated. Thanks... |
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07-31-2008
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| | Re: Need help creating shortcuts On Jul 31, 6:36*pm, Mike <thelotu...@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > Hi everyone- this is an easy one I think, I just need a little help > due to being only a once-in-while vb scripter. I need to create some > shortcuts (.lnk files) and want to use vbscript to do it as it seems > pretty easy. I'm just having a few issues getting the > objLink.TargetPath to behave as I want it to. > > 1) When I put in forward slashes(/), the shortcut ends up with > backlashes (\) > > 2) I'm having trouble getting paths to 2 items with spaces in the path > to work properly. > > Here are 2 examples of what I would like the Target Path to contain, > and cannot get to work properly. > > 1) "%PROGRAMFILES%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "C:\Program Files > \MyApp\TextFile.txt" > > 2) %systemroot%\explorer.exe /e, /root, \\server1\users\usershare > > Any help on setting this up appreciated. Thanks... shortcut method in WSH operates differently from the manual creation of a shortcut. The Targetpath property is just that - ONLY the path to the executable. Arguments are provided with the Arguments property. Tom Lavedas =========== |
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08-01-2008
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| | Re: Need help creating shortcuts "Mike" <thelotus99@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:3bdef61f-cdbf-40ee-8060-74912861b1cb@xxxxxx Quote: > Hi everyone- this is an easy one I think, I just need a little help > due to being only a once-in-while vb scripter. I need to create some > shortcuts (.lnk files) and want to use vbscript to do it as it seems > pretty easy. I'm just having a few issues getting the > objLink.TargetPath to behave as I want it to. > > 1) When I put in forward slashes(/), the shortcut ends up with > backlashes (\) > > 2) I'm having trouble getting paths to 2 items with spaces in the path > to work properly. > > Here are 2 examples of what I would like the Target Path to contain, > and cannot get to work properly. > > 1) "%PROGRAMFILES%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "C:\Program Files > \MyApp\TextFile.txt" > > 2) %systemroot%\explorer.exe /e, /root, \\server1\users\usershare > > Any help on setting this up appreciated. Thanks... |
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08-04-2008
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| | Re: Need help creating shortcuts On Jul 31, 8:14*pm, Tom Lavedas <tglba...@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > On Jul 31, 6:36*pm, Mike <thelotu...@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > Quote: > > Hi everyone- this is an easy one I think, I just need a little help > > due to being only a once-in-while vb scripter. I need to create some > > shortcuts (.lnk files) and want to use vbscript to do it as it seems > > pretty easy. I'm just having a few issues getting the > > objLink.TargetPath to behave as I want it to. Quote: > > 1) When I put in forward slashes(/), the shortcut ends up with > > backlashes (\) Quote: > > 2) I'm having trouble getting paths to 2 items with spaces in the path > > to work properly. Quote: > > Here are 2 examples of what I would like the Target Path to contain, > > and cannot get to work properly. Quote: > > 1) "%PROGRAMFILES%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "C:\Program Files > > \MyApp\TextFile.txt" Quote: > > 2) %systemroot%\explorer.exe /e, /root, \\server1\users\usershare Quote: > > Any help on setting this up appreciated. Thanks... > Old issue - mostly with MS documentation. *Notably because the > shortcut method in WSH operates differently from the manual creation > of a shortcut. > > The Targetpath property is just that - ONLY the path to the > executable. *Arguments are provided with the Arguments property. > > Tom Lavedas > =========== Thanks for the tip, that's exactly what I needed. I added 'objLink.Arguments' to my script and it's working fine now. ~Mike |
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