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I'm with you Remy, and now fully understand, and this helps me a great deal.
Once again thanks for  your excellent help.
Angus.


"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47.no.spam@no.spam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Angus" <aguspickton@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > I right click Internet Explorer from the desktop. Create a shortcut
> > which windows puts on the desktop. I drag the shortcut onto the
> > taskbar. That's it.
>
> The original Internet Explorer icon that is placed on the Desktop is not a
> standard shortcut, there is no filename associated with it.  That is why
you
> cannot resolve it correctly.  I told you earlier that not all items would
be
> standard shortcuts to begin with.
>
> If you right-click on the original Desktop link for IE and go to
Properties,
> you will see that it brings up the IE Configuration dialog, not the
standard
> shortcut Properties dialog.  That is your first clue that the original
link
> is not a standard shortcut.  It is actually a Shell Extension that IE
> installed for itself.
>
> Second, following the steps you describe, if you were to create such a
> shortcut from the original link, and then look at the Properties, you
would
> see that the Target field for the shortcut is set to simply "Internet
> Explorer" and is also greyed out.  That is your second clue that the
> shortcut does not point to an actual filename at all, thus IShellLink will
> not resolve a filename from it.
>
>
> Gambit
>
>