Oscar,

It is very possible that your Windows 95 and NT 4 Desktops might not have a Quick Launch toolbar
The Quick Launch Toolbar is an active desktop feature, which you get from Internet Explorer (starting at IE 4.x).

I have not tried to create any code to check for the existance of Quick Launch or code for Windows 9x/NT
This code should work fine for 2000/XP though. I don't have a Windows 98 or ME at home here to test with.

How to Add or Remove Windows Desktop Update
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 165695
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;165695

Your original code:

code:

$ShellDesk=Readvalue('C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\%USERNAME%\application data\microsoft\internet explorer','quick launch')
$OSclass='@inwin'
if $OSclass='1' ; NT
$TargetPath='c:\program files\Microsoft office\office10'
else ; 9X
$TargetPath='%windir%'
endif
$TargetFilespec=$TargetPath+'\winword.exe'
$cmdline='$MakeScut /n "$ShellDesk\Word" /t "$TargetFilespec"'
Shell $cmdline

You can not use READVALUE to read the directory structure. It is used for reading the REGISTRY
$ShellDesk=Readvalue('C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\%USERNAME%\application data\microsoft\internet explorer','quick launch')
Try something more like this

The variable $MakeScut assumes you have copied the file locally to the workstations %windir% folder.
You could probably run it from a SHARED folder on a server though.


break on
$MakeScut='%windir%\MakeScut.exe'
$ShellDesk="%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch"
$TargetPath=Readvalue('HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Word\InstallRoot', 'Path')
$TargetFilespec=$TargetPath+'winword.exe'
$cmdline='$MakeScut /n "$ShellDesk\Word" /t "$TargetFilespec"'
Shell $cmdline
? 'Shortcut installation results: '+@error +'  '+@serror