I have a created a short cut on my flash drive in the root Dir:
PStart[Home]
"H:\Documents\NonU3Apps\PStart\PStart.exe"
realizing that this would only work on my Home machine.
I plugged the drive into my machine at work.
The drive became "K:" as was expected.
I double clicked on the shortcut, expecting an error.
It was my intent to creat a new shortcut for the work machine.
I received NO ERROR. PStart launched as normal!!!
The shortcut CHANGED TO:
"H:\Documents\NonU3Apps\PStart\PStart.exe"
I tried this on another machine.
The drive became "G:"
I double clicked on the shortcut
I received NO ERROR. PStart launched as normal!!!
The shortcut CHANGED TO:
"G:\Documents\NonU3Apps\PStart\PStart.exe"
As wonderful as this is, I thought this was not supposed to happen.
What's Up?
All 3 machines are Windows XP pro fully patched.
Any ideas?
Tim
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Windows XP Pro tries to fix invalid shortcuts if it can... it's a feature that has it's pluses and it's drawbacks. I don't know if other versions of XP or Vista have this feature or not.
Yeah, XP and probably 2000 simply replace the original drive letter with the one that holds the shortcut if it can't access the absolute path.
Vintage!
Please understand,
I do know that Windows can try to fix broken shortcuts.
But I thought that it basically asked you.
Something like, "This shortcut is invalid/not found do you want me to try to search for the program?". You say yes and it searches for the program and fixes the shortcut if it finds it.
This JUST DID IT!! No questions, no fuss, no muss.
Click shortcut, program launches, shortcut fixed.
I recall reading at different times in the forums about the problems with shortcuts because you could not have "relative paths [or something like that] without special utilities.
I really thought this was supposed to be a problem?
The only problem I can see in my situation is that the shortcut would be edited/rewritten everytime I changed machines and this could cause wear and tear on the sectors of the flash [you know what I'm talking about].
Feedback please?
Tim
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
Windows will only replace the drive letter; it won't look in any other directories.
The only problem I can see in my situation is that the shortcut would be edited/rewritten everytime I changed machines and this could cause wear and tear on the sectors of the flash [you know what I'm talking about].
A byte or two every time you change drive letters is nothing. FxP does a lot of writing to fix absolute filepaths when the drive letter changes.
Vintage!
Instead of using shortcuts, you could use batch files which do not require the use of drive letters. With batch files you may use relative "pathing".
IP
Actually,
That was my final choice.
I am using PSart.bat
[start \Documents\NonU3Apps\PStart\PStart.exe]
But it doesnt' have the pretty icon
Tim
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
You can use a "batch compile" that will transform your bat into exe file, and you can add any icon that you want.
Sorry for my english.
How do you make a batch compile "that will transform your bat into exe file" please
Tim
Geek w/o portfolio
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
https://portableapps.com/node/4742
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