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Follow-up question regarding shortcut creation/change
country flaguser name
Europe		 2007-08-30 14:48:57 

  


  

    

Okay, gurus, you've helped me get this
far, now....



Is there a WMI method to edit a desktop
shortcut? Specifically, I need to change the argument string from an IP
address to the DNS name the IP resolves to. For example, if the Target
 text of the shortcut is



        c:foofoo.exe
255.255.255.255 1024



I need to change the "argument"

part so the Target text becomes (if that IP resolves to FOO15)



        c:foofoo.exe
FOO15 1024



Is there a way to do this?  Or
is it possible to edit the .lnk file in Perl?  It seems to be in binmode
(I think?), and the argument part is interspersed with CHR(0)'s between
every character...



Thanks again,



Deane Rothenmaier

Programmer/Analyst

Walgreens Corp.

847-914-5150



My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it
is as it is and why it exists at all. -- Stephen Hawking

  

  
  
   
     
    

  

    RE: Follow-up question regarding
shortcut creation/change
  


  

     country flaguser name
Canada		
     2007-08-30 15:18:24
  


  

    

  


  

    





Win32::Shortcut is part of ActivePerl on Windows.



 



It won’t give you anything
than what you got from your WSH implementation, so I may not understand the
real issue behind your question.



 



Cheers,



-Jan



 



PS: Could you please use plain text messages on the mailing
list?  Makes it much easier to reply to individual parts of messages.



 












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Okay, gurus,
you've helped me get this far, now.... 



Is there a WMI
method to edit a desktop shortcut? Specifically, I need to change the argument
string from an IP address to the DNS name the IP resolves to. For example, if
the Target  text of the shortcut is 



   
    c:foofoo.exe 255.255.255.255 1024 



I need to
change the "argument" part so the Target text becomes (if that IP
resolves to FOO15) 



   
    c:foofoo.exe FOO15 1024 



Is there a way
to do this?  Or is it possible to edit the .lnk file in Perl?  It
seems to be in binmode (I think?), and the argument part is interspersed with
CHR(0)'s between every character... 



Thanks again,




Deane
Rothenmaier

Programmer/Analyst

Walgreens Corp.

847-914-5150



My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as
it is and why it exists at all. -- Stephen Hawking









  

  
  
   
     
    






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