Re: How to create a relative shortcut ?

From	Schugo <schugo@schugo.de>
Newsgroups	comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32, alt.comp.os.windows-xp, alt.windows7.general
Subject	Re: How to create a relative shortcut ?
Date	2025-09-03 21:54 +0200
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<109a6ec$1c0ef$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 02.09.2025 11:36, R.Wieser wrote:
> ...
> I did find this : 
> https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20171019-00/?p=97247 , but I'm 
> not even sure if that is what I'm after ... :-|

however, there he claims the relative path is already in any .lnk,
but not used, because LINKINFO and LINKTRACK is used first.

"Normal shortcuts already remember the target’s location relative to the
shortcut itself. However, the relative path is not used until other avenues
have been exhausted. To give the relative path more prominence, let’s disable
the other avenues."

so you have to add these 2 flags

SLDF_FORCE_NO_LINKINFO
SLDF_FORCE_NO_LINKTRACK

with

IShellLinkDataList::SetFlags
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shobjidl_core/nf-shobjidl_core-ishelllinkdatalist-setflags

ciao...

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How to create a relative shortcut ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-09-02 11:36 +0200
  Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-09-02 17:41 +0200
    Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-09-02 18:39 +0200
  Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-09-02 17:50 +0200
  Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-09-03 00:34 +0100
    Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-09-03 08:15 +0200
    Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-09-03 02:21 -0400
      Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-09-03 09:47 +0200
        Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-09-03 09:17 -0400
          Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-09-03 16:35 +0200
            Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-09-03 16:49 +0200
              Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-09-03 19:19 +0200
                Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-09-03 21:32 +0200
                Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-09-04 07:59 +0200
          Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-09-04 02:04 +0100
      Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-09-03 09:02 +0100
        Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-09-03 13:26 +0200
          Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? Jakob Bohm <egenagwemdimtapsar@jbohm.dk> - 2025-09-04 09:17 +0200
            Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? malxau <address@is.invalid> - 2026-03-22 17:50 +0000
  Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? Udo Steinbach <trashcan@udoline.de> - 2025-09-03 20:38 +0200
    Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-09-03 21:22 +0200
      Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-09-03 22:52 +0200
        Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-09-04 09:02 +0200
          Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-09-04 15:39 +0200
            Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-09-04 16:11 +0200
              Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-09-04 16:26 +0200
                Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-09-04 17:32 +0200
            Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-09-05 09:34 +0200
              Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-09-05 15:54 +0200
                Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-09-05 17:05 +0200
                Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-09-05 17:31 +0200
                Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-09-05 18:09 +0200
          Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-09-04 15:57 +0200
    Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? JJ <jj4public@outlook.com> - 2025-09-04 03:03 +0700
  Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-09-03 21:54 +0200
    Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-09-04 08:22 +0200
      Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? Jakob Bohm <egenagwemdimtapsar@jbohm.dk> - 2025-09-04 10:19 +0200
  Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? JJ <jj4public@outlook.com> - 2025-09-04 03:01 +0700
    Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-09-04 08:50 +0200
  Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? Zaidy036 <Zaidy036@air.isp.spam> - 2025-09-03 22:00 -0400
    Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-09-04 09:16 +0200
  Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-09-05 21:05 +0200
    Re: How to create a relative shortcut ? Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-09-06 18:58 +0200

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