How to package up shortcut?

[LAS]

I have a shortcut to run an Access application. It's target is:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\MSAccess.exe"
"C:\Access\Application\MyDatabase.mdb"/runtime

When I try to put it into a zip file to send to users, the content of the
zip is MSAccess.exe. How can I distribute my shortcut?

tia
las

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

The shortcut is a file, with an extension of .lnk (although you'll never see
that extension in Windows Explorer, even if you've told Windows to show file
extensions)

An alternative is to generate the shortcut for them. I showed one way in my
June, 2004 "Access Answers" column in Pinnacle Publication's "Smart Access".
Take a look at http://www.vb123.com/kb/200406_ds_aa.htm

 

[LAS]

I know it's a file. That's why I expected to see the shortcutname.lnk file
inside the .zip file after I right moused on it and added it to a zip.
Instead of acting like a passive file, it acted like an active link. How
can I get the .lnk file into a zip file instead of msaccess.exe?

Thanks for the info regarding setting it up. But since I'm rarely on site
and can't use something like NetMeeting with them, the zip of the link is
best for my situation.

 

[LAS]

I read your article and see that my not being on site is not an issue.
It's full of valuable info. But in my situation the location of the program
can be assumed. I just need to know how to copy my shortcutname.lnk file to
the client's computer. E-mail security doesn't let me simply attach the
plain shortcutname.lnk file to an e-mail. I usually do use zipped (and
exe'd) files to send the databases. Because of security I rename the zip
exe's to *.exe_file.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

What OS? I just created a Zip file consisting of strictly a shortcut in
Vista (the only OS I have handy)

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
http://www.AccessMVP.com/djsteele
Co-author: "Access 2010 Solutions", published by Wiley
(no e-mails, please!)

 

[LAS]

Windows XP. It might be important that the target in mine is complex. Two
pieces in quotes.
Did you right mouse on the shortcut and then choose winzip to do this? When
I do that msaccess.zip is one of the choices, indicating that it's not
seeing the shortcut as a simple *.lnk file.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Okay, I just tried using WinZip under XP, and I experience the same as you.
I'd say it has nothing to do with Access, though: it's a bug in WinZip!

However, it's possible to add the .lnk file from within WinZip. Click on Add
and navigate to it.

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
http://www.AccessMVP.com/djsteele
Co-author: "Access 2010 Solutions", published by Wiley
(no e-mails, please!)

 

[LAS]

Thanks for hanging in there with me on this!!

Okay, I just tried using WinZip under XP, and I experience the same as
you. I'd say it has nothing to do with Access, though: it's a bug in
WinZip!

However, it's possible to add the .lnk file from within WinZip. Click on
Add and navigate to it.

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
http://www.AccessMVP.com/djsteele
Co-author: "Access 2010 Solutions", published by Wiley
(no e-mails, please!)