See my answer in the Visual Studio forum. And please create a message only in the most appropriate forum.

Vlad

>How Can I insert shortcut into desktop or Start menu for any EXE file, where is stored with full path in variable (Code in MS Visual C++).
>I have variable
>NewExeFile = "C:\Program Files\AST\ast.exe"
>I wann create shortcut for this EXE file. How ?