Sergey... muchos gracias. Bit surprised it took almost a minute on a sat nite. Emailing u a beer as i type. Thanks again.

>>I looking to programmatically create a desktop shortcut icon in order to launch a CHM file thats been copied from a server to the workstation. Does shellexecute allow for this? Any examples?
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>You can use WSH. See Re: How to Create Shortcuts/Get Desktop Folder Message #866827 and Message #866778