by Max Christian Pohle (9 Submissions)
Category: Windows System Services
Difficulty: Beginner
Date Added: Wed 3rd February 2021
Rating: 
(5 Votes)
It creates a shortcut and lets you define all important parameters. I have seen some examples before, but they where all too complicated for this little job. So I collected informationen and wrote this.
Inputs
for example
CreateShortcut App.Path & "\Explorer.lnk", "C:\winnt\explorer.exe", "", "CTRL+SHIFT+D", "Microsoft Windows Explorer", Maximized, 0
creates a link in your applications path which calls the explorer.exe from "c:\winnt", defines CTRL+Shift+D as keycombination for it, starts the Explorer-window maximized and uses the standardicon of explorer.exe, which is 0.
Code Returns
Returns? The shortcut :-)
API Declarationsno APIs used, but Windows-Scriptinghost
Thats why it should run as "VB Script" as well ( with little modifications maybe :-) )
VBcodersOption Explicit
Enum Windowstyle
Minimized = 7
Maximized = 3
Normal = 1
End Enum
Public Function CreateShortcut(Linkpath As String, TargetPath As String, Optional WorkPath As String, Optional HotKey As String = "", Optional Description As String = "", Optional Winstyle As Windowstyle, Optional Iconnumber As Integer)
Dim SC As Object
Set SC = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").CreateShortcut(Linkpath)
With SC
.TargetPath = TargetPath
'where your shortcuts jumps to
.HotKey = HotKey
'can be "CTRL+SHIFT+E" (as Str!) for Example
.Description = Description
'this should be clear to you
.Windowstyle = Winstyle
'Winstyle differs from the typical styles (2 does not mean maximized)
.IconLocation = TargetPath & ", " & Iconnumber
'This will take the Icon for the link from the file its associated with (targetpath)
'some files include more than one icon. This is what is meant by Iconnumber.
.WorkingDirectory = WorkPath
'The normal Workingdirectory for the file the link calls.
.Save
'saves the link [important! :-)]
End With
End Function
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