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.

[Jerry Grant]

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

      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

(code extract from MSDN libray)

Hope this helps

Thanks!!!!