>>>Does any one know how to create a windows shortcut programatically?
>>>
>>>And along with that determine the Desktop folder to save it into?
>>>
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>>For only Win2k or + you can:
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>>DECLARE INTEGER CreateShellLink IN LNKFILES.DLL;
>>STRING @lpzLinkFileName, STRING @lpzExeFileName
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>>oShell = CREATEOBJECT("WScript.Shell")
>>oFso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
>>cwdesktopfolder = oShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
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>>lnErrorCode = CreateShellLink(cwdesktopfolder+"\My Shortcut.lnk","c:\myfolder\myapp.exe")
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>That's a DLL that I wrote. Its intended target platform was Win9x, so there was some limited functionality. For example, can't get the All User's Desktop.
George


In that case, the better option is to mix the two solution (franco and mine), something as:

oShell          = CREATEOBJECT("WScript.Shell")
oFso            = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
cwdesktopfolder = oShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop")

lnk             = oshell.CreateShortcut("foo.lnk")
lnk.TargetPath  = "c:\dummy.exe"
lnk.Save

Claudio