Shortcut to local drive that I can copy?

[lameid]

While I suspect this has more to do with WinXP than Win2k3, I didn't see a more appropriate forum

I create some shortcuts to open MS Access with a target pointing to the local Access program file with additional command line switches. Works great. Then I copy it to a Win2k3 share... Looks fine. Finally I copy onto another Windows XP machine and instead of having a target that looks like "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\..."
it looks like "\\<Original Machine name>\c$\Program Files\Microsoft Office\..." . I of course want it to maintain the literal absolute reference instead of making this change.

I can of course manually edit the shortcut but that defeats the purpose of making it more accessible.

Any insight would be most appreciated.

 

[danofre]

on the share: right click > create shortcut and then point it. Dont copy. It tries to re-establish the link.

 

[ScottCr]

use the variable %systemdrive%

therefore you have

%systemdrive%\program files\................

http://scottcross.blogspot.com

Windows and NT Admin.

 

[lameid]

Thanks Scott that is exactly what I needed. Although I think the other suggestion would work too, it is less elegant.

 

[58sniper]

you should also be able to use
%ProgramFiles%\....

Pat Richard, MCSE(2) MCSA:Messaging, CNA(2)