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Michael Habermann
Copper Contributor
Oct 22, 2018

Create Shortcuts with PowerShell

Hello, bonjour, bom dia, guten Tag,

 

As i write more and more unit tests for my functions i use, there are a few things making me wonder as my unittests fail and i first did not now why.
As a result i got 2 questions:

 

  • Is it wanted that it is possible to create a Shortcut without a name?

         

  • I am not able to set a hotkey at an url shortcut while it is possible via the GUI.
    Is it kinda bug or wanted?

 

 If the code is needed i could paste it.

 

Thanks in advance.

Michael

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  • mbocak's avatar
    mbocak
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 11, 2019

    Hello Michael Habermann,

     

    Not sure if I understood correctly what were you trying to ask, but if you're trying to ask how to make a shortcut without a written name but with an extension you can try to use this, I tried this code and it was working for me. This is the example of making the shortcut for notepad:

     

    $TargetFile = "$env:SystemRoot\System32\notepad.exe"
    $FileName = ""
    $ShortcutFile = "C:\Users\mbocak1\Desktop\$($FileName).lnk"
    $WScriptShell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell
    $Shortcut = $WScriptShell.CreateShortcut($ShortcutFile)
    $Shortcut.TargetPath = $TargetFile
    $Shortcut.Save()

     

    Sorry if this is not what you were looking for, but if not, can you try explaining again?

     

    Hope this will help!

    Cheers!

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