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Re: wshshell.run a shortcut and waiting for it to finish. How ?

From	"R.Wieser" <address@not.available>
Newsgroups	microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript
Subject	Re: wshshell.run a shortcut and waiting for it to finish. How ?
Date	2020-11-18 18:48 +0100
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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Mayayana,

>   Why don't you just go direct?

I did.   I now check for a .lnk extension and if its there extract the 
target from the shortcut and than run that. It works.

> If I had to guess I'd say the LNK probably calls Explorer to
> do the job, in which case Explorer would return immediately.

I don't know what gets called to handle the shortcut (User32.dll has got 
several "ShellExecute" functions available), but I assumed something like 
the last part, yes.

> I'm not certain about that, but I don't see any sense going
> indirect in the first place.

Somethimes a shortcut is needed to be able to provide arguments to a program 
that you want to have run (on startup or winddown).

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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