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	2025-09-06 18:58 +0200
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 05.09.2025 21:05, R.Wieser wrote:
> "R.Wieser" wrote :
> 
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm trying to create relative shortcuts* (for use on a removable USB 
>> harddisk) and can't seem to find out how it works.
> 
> It looks like I ran head-first into some "over-engenering".  :-(
> 
> As I could not find any way to create a relative shortcut using the 
> IShellLink object, I took a better look at the Shortcut file itself. And 
> going on a hunch, I was able to solve the problem in the most basic way ever 
> : by manually creating a shortcut file.
> 
> It turns out that writing the header with only the "HasRelativePath" flag 
> set and than the desired (counted-length) relative path followed by four 
> bytes all Zero (as the end of extras list of blocks) does the trick.
> 
> Adding other strings (arguments, working directory, description) the same 
> way also works.
> 
> One downside though : when going into the properties and changing the target 
> causes the shortcut to revert to its normal, absolute paths format.
> 
> ... At least, here on my XPsp3 machine.

congrats! good to know.

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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