Win7/64 Shortcut Discrepancy Between Scripted IconLocation And Change Icon Button
Nov 30, 2010
I am noticing a discrepancy between a full path specified for a VBScript Shortcut IconLocation and the subsequent mangled result that only becomes noticeable when I wish to manually change the Shortcut's Icon. Somewhere after the oShortcut.save call, the mangling occurs.
The icon is always properly displayed on the Shortcut. However, programs that exist only in the 32-bit "C:Program Files (x86)" location result in an error message that states, "Windows can't find the file %ProgramFiles%<etc>." (where <etc> is the remainder of the path).
The Visual Basic Script as well as my Command Prompt both show %ProgramFiles% as "C:Program Files (x86)", yet the Shortcut/Windows Explorer dialog always interpret it as the 64-bit Program directory. This may indicate a low level flawed interaction, a contention of definitions.
Input/Output examples:
IN: Hard coded to the call to oShortcut.IconLocation = "<Full Path>,0"
OUT: The text shown in the error message after I click "Change Icon...".
These ONLY exist in "C:Program Files (x86)":
IN: C:Program Files (x86)AdobeReader 10.0ReaderAcroRd32.exe
OUT: %ProgramFiles%AdobeReader 10.0ReaderAcroRd32.exe
[Code]....
Note the %SystemDrive% adds a further insane mangling of the 64-bit path. This one luckily seems to be a benign error for the moment. The errors are not even consistent. Has anyone at Microsoft ever heard of quality control?
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Here's the code I'm using:
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I found this thread[url]...
and I have encountered the exact same problem, that the desktop shortcut icon created by the Setup program does not work when dragging and dropping a file (in this case an Access-database) onto it,
while a shortcut manually created works just fine.
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[Code].....
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[code]....
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Here is the code i have:
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[CODE]...
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<div id="m-start">
<ul><li class="bg-login login-module">
<input id="tbID" type="text">
<input id="tbPass" type="password">
[CODE]...
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