Shortcuts??? how to edit?

[jsteph]

Hi,
I have a shortcut that I need to edit...as a text file. This is not one of those clsid shortcuts, this is a regular shortcut.

I renamed it to .txt, so lets say it's shortcut.txt. I go to open in Notepad...but the target opens in notepad. What's driving this is that I need to deploy a shortcut onto multiple desktops. The target is a file I'm placing in their winsys directory. The problem is that some people's winsys is c:\windows\system32, some are c:\winnt\system32.

So...I haven't been able to figure out how to use the %winsys% environment variable in a shortcut. And when I edit the shortcut on *my* machine, to the alternate winsys, it says the target is invalid. Bottom line--all I want is the ability to actually save a shortcut that may, at the moment, not be valid. Is that so diffuclt for MS to allow? Does anyone know a simple way of either editing the actual .lnk file, or changing the shortcut? And, while making a 'dummy' folder that is valid might work, I'm really looking for a way to actually save the shortcut without that kludge.
Thanks,
--Jim

 

[linney]

Can you use something like %systemroot%/system32 in the Target box of the Shortcut?

Environment Variables

http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/23873/23873.html

 

[bcastner]

If you use environmental variables in the shortcut target, they get expanded when the shortcut is saved.

Make the shortcut target a .bat or .cmd file that uses environamental variables as the program path reference, rather than trying to do it all in the shortcut.


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