>>>i'm having a problem creating shortcuts on my machine that i want to give to others.
>>>i created a shortcut to an exe on my hard drive then took the .lnk to another machine with
>>>the same exe in the same spot but when trying to run the shortcut, it tried to access my machine with unc.
>>>
>>>this doesn't happen if my hard drive is not shared, but i kind of need to have it shared.
>>>it is however kind of a pain to unshare my drive each time i want to make a shortcut for others.
>>>
>>>anyone know a better solution?
>>
>>Edit the icon properties before the copy?
>>
>>:)
>
>i tried nothing is there noting that it is looking at a shared drive.
>the target dir is c:\exe\myexe.exe but from another machine it looks at
>\\mymyachine\driveshare\exe\myexe.exe.
>i opened the .lnk in edit and saw the reference to the share and removed it,
>but it didn't work correctly.

I try the samething with an Hexa editor, i remove the reference to the
drive name and it work.

(if you use an ascii editor the file can be damage)

:)