OS independent shortcut creator,
I would like to have all the users in my building easly make a shortcut to "http://something.something.com.au" by clicking on a attached .exe from an email. This is easy in windows 98, because the desktop is in the same location everytime. Can someone please help make a .exe that will locate the desktop location and create a shortcut to that location?
cheers,
Nathan :)
Re: OS independent shortcut creator,
In windows XP And windows 98?
Cheers,
Nathan
Re: OS independent shortcut creator,
Pretty sure you can use Environmental Variables in both OS's.
HTML Code:
Option Explicit
Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim ff As Integer
ff = FreeFile
Open App.Path & "\Environment.txt" For Output As #ff
'Set form autoredraw property to true to get this example
'to work
Dim myuser As Variant
Dim I As Integer
'used to test if any environment variables exist
'sometimes they don't
Dim sTemp As String
I = 1
myuser = Environ(I)
sTemp = myuser
Form1.Print " " & Environ(I)
Print #ff, Environ(I)
I = I + 1
'Print all values on form
Do While Len(myuser) > 0
Form1.Print " " & Environ(I)
Print #ff, Environ(I)
I = I + 1
myuser = Environ(I)
sTemp = sTemp & myuser
' Print #ff, myuser
Loop
If Len(sTemp) = 0 Then
Form1.Print _
"No environment variables exist"
Print #ff, "No environment variables exist"
End If
Close #ff
End Sub
Gives this for me: USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\David
Re: OS independent shortcut creator,
This sounds a bit shady as an email will usually have the exe attachment stripped off by many antivirus software.
Can you explain more of what and how your doing it?