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I know this is kind of a weird question, but does anybody know of a program that can make shortcuts for me in win2000. You know, like the same thing as send to desktop, or copy shortcut or one of those but just in an executable, like I type in the directory path or file path and it creates the shortcut for me. I know it's a very strange question, but could you just try to answer it without having to know the why's?

behmer - Google Bomb, for my dad's site.
kewlster

Right-click on the desktop. Go to new->shortcut. A dialog box will open up where you can type the path of the executable.

Not sure if this is what you are asking for. Can you be more specific?

OK, I guess I didn't make it clear in my above post. I want to do this without any of the right click stuff, without any of the built in features of any of the programs in windows. Just a whole seperate executable that does this. This probably seems like a very very strange thing I know, but just trust me on this one, it's sorta hard to explain why.

behmer - Google Bomb, for my dad's site.
kewlster

There is an executable that comes with the Windows NT Server Resource Kit Version 4.0 Supplement called shortcut.exe

This executable will create a shortcut using a command like the following:

shortcut.exe -t "c:\path\to\executable.exe" -n "Link name.lnk" -i "c:\icons\icon.ico" -x 0 -d "c:\put\shortcut\here"

-t : target of the shortcut
-n : name of the link file
-i : the icon file to use for the link icon
-x : the icon index within the ico file
-d : the directory to put the shortcut in

Hope this helped. BTW, you might be able to download the shortcut.exe from Microsoft's website.

OK, thanks, a friend helped me find a good program.

behmer - Google Bomb, for my dad's site.
kewlster