>Hi George
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>I should have said the amount of comment that is displayed:)
>The comment is concatenated when it is not selected and I dont want them having to click on a lot of icons to find what they want.
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>My rant about long file names was more directed to the display in windows explorer, I have always wanted there to be a comment field that can be attached to a file:)
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>I could group all the app shortcuts into a folder of their own on the desktop and change the view of the folder to list view and get something close to the desired effect. Trouble is if I write a paragraph about the app then the shortcut name would need to wrap. I also would want to stop the users changing it back to Icon view again.
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Mark,

All I've got is a SWAG, but it is one based on a few known things.

First, the Windows Script Host's WScript.Shell object's CreateShortcut() method allows you to get an object reference to an existing short cut link and exposes the Description property. This could be used to get the description from the short cut and output it (via WSH) to an HTML file.

Second, both VBScript and JScript can be embedded within HTML documents. The Shell also supports a Run method that could be used to launch the application.

The bad news...I've never tried to do anything like this, but it would appear to be theorhetically possible.