George--

>The WSH can do this as well, plus retrieve the name of the All User's Desktop.

oShell = CREATEOBJECT('WScript.Shell')
>? oShell.SpecialFolders("AllUsersDesktop")
>? oShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop")

I would like to look at the contents of an existing shortcut (especially the Target). Is there any way to do this (I am using Win 2K)?

Thanks.

Tim Muller