mass change shortcut target drive

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Hello, I have around 300+ shortcuts that need to have drive letters

changed from c,d,e,f,g, etc to c,d,e,r,g etc.



When I move drives around the shortcuts don't change so i have been

doing it manually but i am tried of doing it that way.



Is there some way to automate this all the shortcuts are in a shortcuts

folder on my desktop.
 
Don wrote:

> Hello, I have around 300+ shortcuts that need to have drive letters

> changed from c,d,e,f,g, etc to c,d,e,r,g etc.

>

> When I move drives around the shortcuts don't change so i have been

> doing it manually but i am tried of doing it that way.

>

> Is there some way to automate this all the shortcuts are in a

> shortcuts folder on my desktop.



A little more detail might assist - such as why you need 300+ shortcuts to

drives that you move around/why you move drives around enough for this to be

a concern/etc...



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On 2/3/2010 8:55 PM, Don wrote:

> Hello, I have around 300+ shortcuts that need to have drive letters

> changed from c,d,e,f,g, etc to c,d,e,r,g etc.

>

> When I move drives around the shortcuts don't change so i have been

> doing it manually but i am tried of doing it that way.

>

> Is there some way to automate this all the shortcuts are in a shortcuts

> folder on my desktop.



well i have different operating systems that get installed at different

points that on a few machines the drive letters will never match up. SO

when i have to work on the machine an i need to axcess the shortcut i

manually change them from t:\test access\file1.doc to k:\test

access\file1.doc



some of the machines have drive letters in use all the way up to y: from

card readers, hard drives and drive mappings, so i cannot standardize

the shortcuts.
 
Don wrote:

> Hello, I have around 300+ shortcuts that need to have drive letters

> changed from c,d,e,f,g, etc to c,d,e,r,g etc.

>

> When I move drives around the shortcuts don't change so i have been

> doing it manually but i am tried of doing it that way.

>

> Is there some way to automate this all the shortcuts are in a

> shortcuts folder on my desktop.



Assign a share name then use the URL in the shortcut.
 
VBScript, a Windows freebee, is a simple scripting language with easy access

to change the target string of shortcuts.

microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript is a good newsgroup to search for sample

scripts relating to shortcuts and to get help with VBScripts.



-Paul Randall



"Don" wrote in message

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> Hello, I have around 300+ shortcuts that need to have drive letters

> changed from c,d,e,f,g, etc to c,d,e,r,g etc.

>

> When I move drives around the shortcuts don't change so i have been doing

> it manually but i am tried of doing it that way.

>

> Is there some way to automate this all the shortcuts are in a shortcuts

> folder on my desktop.
 
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