Launch a desktop shortcut

[Giampiero]

Hi,

I'm trying to launch a desktop shortcut but something doesn't work as expected. This is the code:

$aston = '\Snap1.lnk'
ShellExecuteWait(@DesktopCommonDir & $aston)

I get a system error:

"impossible to find C:\Users\Public\Desktop\Snap1.lnk"

these are the parameters for the shortcut:

Shortcut: destination---> "C:\Program Files\Brainstorm\Aston 3.1\bin\launcher.bat" bin\eStudio.bat "-lAston"

                from--->"C:\Program Files\Brainstorm\Aston 3.1"

General: Snap1.lnk

description: launcher.bat

path: C:\Users\Public\Desktop

Thanks for your help

 

 

 

[Musashi]

1 hour ago, Giampiero said:

I get a system error:

"impossible to find C:\Users\Public\Desktop\Snap1.lnk"

- 1. Have you take a look into the folder : C:\Users\Public\Desktop and can you find a file named Snap1...  there, or is the Name i.e. "xxx - Shortcut.lnk"

- 2. Perhaps the desktop shortcut resides under @DesktopDir -> C:\Users\[Username]\Desktop

Example : I created a desktoplink for a file namend Dummy.exe .

Then I went to C:\Users\[Username]\Desktop and renamed the link to Snap1 (without the .lnk extension, because it is already one )

$sDesktopLink = '\Snap1.lnk'
ShellExecuteWait(@DesktopDir & $sDesktopLink)

worked well !

[benched42]

I have found there's a difference between Windows 7 and Windows 10. For both Windows 7 and Windows 10, the AutoIt macro @DesktopCommonDir returns "C:\Users\Public\Desktop. That is actually the Windows 7 Public user's desktop. However, in Windows 10, the Public user's desktop is "C:\Users\Public\Public Desktop". I've had to modify some of my scripts to take this into account.

This is what I have found in my scripts here at work. Not sure if Home versions of Windows 10 or Windows 7 are different.

[Subz]

@benched42 "Public Desktop" is just the display name, all Windows 10 systems point to ...\Public\Desktop, the @DesktopCommonDir macro should always return the correct folder path, you can always double check by viewing the "Common Desktop value in registry under:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/knownfolderid
FOLDERID_PublicDesktop