Bansaw
16th July 2010 13:41 UTC

Creating a .lnk that launches Windows Explorer with parameters ...?
I want to create a lnk in the start menu to launch windows explorer with parameters.
Here's what I am using:

CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\VMS Images\Open Images folder.lnk" "$WINDIR\explorer.exe /root,c:\VMS images"

Its not working, although it works fine from the Cmd prompt.

Does NSIS complier not like the forward slash or something else?

thanks,,

MSG
16th July 2010 14:12 UTC

VMS images contains a space, and therefore needs to be put between quotes.

Bansaw
16th July 2010 14:24 UTC

thanks

When I look at the .lnk it creates, its properties, I see that two characters are not coming out:

The colon : after C so C:\ becomes C\

the forward slash before root is also not coming out.

Bansaw
16th July 2010 17:00 UTC

I got it, - the parameters MUSt be in a separate string completely from the string.

So, this won't work:
CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\VMS Images\Open Images folder.lnk" "$WINDIR\explorer.exe /root,c:\VMS images"

But this will:
CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\VMS Images\Open Images folder.lnk" "$WINDIR\explorer.exe " "/root,c:\VMS images"