Changing Target in Shortcut`s properties .

Dear Friends,
I just wanna know how to change the target in a shortcut's properties, so that instead of pointing at "C:\abc.exe", it can point to "c:\xyz.exe"; by using VB.

And how to search for the shortcut that actually pointing at a particular program, because the user might rename the shortcut, so it cant be traced by its name, so anyway to trace it ??



Thanks ..


Darren.

From your Visual studio setup CDs there is a demo project for shortcuts.

This is located at:
CD3\COMMON\TOOLS\VB\UNSUPPRT\SHELLLNK

Email me if you don't have access to this!

Otherwise the following API could be used for creating new ones, once the old has been removed:

fCreastShell

Code:

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      Option Explicit

      'NOTE: In Visual Basic 5.0, change Stkit432.dll in the following
      'statement to Vb5stkit.dll.

      Private Declare Function fCreateShellLink Lib "STKIT432.DLL" (ByVal _
      lpstrFolderName As String, ByVal lpstrLinkName As String, ByVal _
      lpstrLinkPath As String, ByVal lpstrLinkArgs As String) As Long

      Sub Command1_Click()

        Dim lReturn As Long

        'Add to Desktop
        lReturn = fCreateShellLink("..\..\Desktop", _
        "Shortcut to Calculator", "c:\Winnt\system32\calc.exe", "")

        'Add to Program Menu Group
        lReturn = fCreateShellLink("", "Shortcut to Calculator", _
        "c:\Winnt\system32\calc.exe", "")

        'Add to Startup Group

        'Note that on Windows NT, the shortcut will not actually appear
        'in the Startup group until your next reboot.
        lReturn = fCreateShellLink("\Startup", "Shortcut to Calculator", _
        "c:\Winnt\system32\calc.exe", "")

      End Sub

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(code extract from MSDN libray)

Hope this helps;)

Thanks!!!!