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Make Shortcuts Tool

MakeShortcuts is a simple straight forward tool that I wrote today (ahum yesterday it's now past midnight...) that can create shortcuts in the Windows Start Menu based on an INI file.

Layout of the INI file:

[Application Name]
startpath=tool.exe
menulocation=Programs\Tools
arguments=/s
iconpath=c:\windows\system32\moricons.dll
iconnumber=0
scope=U

• Startpath is the full path to an executable or associated extension Application Name, startpath and menulocation are mandetory, the other entries are optional
  
• Scope can be U or A, where 'U' will crate the shortcut for the current logged on user and 'A' will create the shortcut for all users
  
• Menulocation is the folder to create the shortcuts in, if it does not yet exist it will be created. You can specify more levels of menus by seperating each level with a '\'.
  
• The INI file can contain multiple items
  
• The sample INI file included in the zip file below contains definitions for some Sysinternals Tools, you probably have to change some pathnames to make it work for your setup.

Command syntax: MakeShortcuts .\inifile.ini

Download MakeShortcuts (23KB)

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