Editing shortcut (.lnk) properties with Powershell

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Doug Chase picture Doug Chase · Jan 27, 2009 · Viewed 67.5k times · Source

I've found a nasty VBS way to do this, but I'm looking for a native PoSh procedure to edit the properties of a .LNK file. The goal is to reach out to remote machines, duplicate an existing shortcut with most of the correct properties, and edit a couple of them.

If it would just be easier to write a new shortcut file, that would work too.

Answer

JasonMArcher picture JasonMArcher · Feb 10, 2009 
Copy-Item $sourcepath $destination  ## Get the lnk we want to use as a template
$shell = New-Object -COM WScript.Shell
$shortcut = $shell.CreateShortcut($destination)  ## Open the lnk
$shortcut.TargetPath = "C:\path\to\new\exe.exe"  ## Make changes
$shortcut.Description = "Our new link"  ## This is the "Comment" field
$shortcut.Save()  ## Save

Found the VB version of the code here: http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Extract-the-target-file-from-a-shortcut-file-.lnk/18349

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