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Re: Open cmd.exe from shortcut, execute command

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From: Michel Leunen
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 09:31
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vortic wrote:

> I could not figure out how to get ShellExecute to open a 
> shortcut, but that is ok.

A shortcut is like other files and has an .lnk extension. Just do

ShellExecute( NULL, "open", "your_link.lnk", "", NULL, SW_SHOWDEFAULT );

Michel
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