Creating Shortcuts

[Ian Phillips]

I am endeavouring to create a programme shortcut for a dos
based programme for users in a particular group.
I wondered about a logon script, but cannot seem to find
any documentation on using a logon script to create a
shortcut. (Apart from shortcut.exe which appears to be
depracated in win 2000)
Is there another alternative?

 

[Guest]

try a vbscript...

see
http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/wsh/quickref/wshshell_CreateShortcut.html

 

[Ian Phillips]

Thanks heaps

Much appreciated.

Excuse my ignorance, but does the vbscript just sit inside
the login script as straight text, or does it have to be
declared as a vbscript somehow within the login script
file?

Ian

 

[Guest]

for win2k and above it can just sit as is.....

Thanks heaps

Much appreciated.

Excuse my ignorance, but does the vbscript just sit inside
the login script as straight text, or does it have to be
declared as a vbscript somehow within the login script
file?

Ian

 

[Ian Phillips]

Fantastic

Except - I had to create a separate file and name it with
a .vbs extention to be able to get it to do what I need it
to. (not part of a .bat file I was using for other things)

However - when running this script at logon, I now get an
error at the workstation level, that it can't actually
save the shortcut.

As I don't get this error as admin when lgging on, I
figure it is to do with permissions. Is it possible to
make a logon script run as administrator? Or am I on the
wrong track?

Ian