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#188529 - 2008-07-02 08:38 PM Creating shortcuts with WshShortcut without admin privileges
PetersonEB Offline
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Registered: 2008-06-25
Posts: 4
Hello all,

Can anyone tell me whether it is possible to create shortcuts in the Start Menu when not running the logon script as a local admin? I am using the WshShortcut UDF, which is running fine until I log in as a regular user. I stripped down the code and separated it and it seems to error out when using the CreateShortcut method on line 2...

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$Shell=CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
$Shortcut=$Shell.CreateShortcut("c:\test.lnk)
$Shortcut.TargetPath="c:\windows\notepad.exe"
$Shortcut.Save


I tried this same code under VBScript (modified) and it works fine. I am running it on XP, but I get the same results on 2k. Does Kix treat COM objects differently than VBS?

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#188530 - 2008-07-02 08:43 PM Re: Creating shortcuts with WshShortcut without admin privileges [Re: PetersonEB]
Mart Moderator Offline
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You can use AdminScript Editor (ASE), RunAs, Runn As( note the double n), Kix2EXE and/or the tokenization feature that is build in in kix. This way you can relatively safe include a password and username to use when running the script that creates the shortcuts. If you do a search on one or all of them then you’ll loads of results showing you how to use it.
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#188531 - 2008-07-02 10:07 PM Re: Creating shortcuts with WshShortcut without admin privileges [Re: Mart]
PetersonEB Offline
Just in Town

Registered: 2008-06-25
Posts: 4
Nevermind. It looks like admin privileges are not required after all. The problem was that I was only creating the folder for the shortcuts to be placed into in some situations. The user account I have been testing happened to bypass all the functions that would have created it first. That doesn't explaining that piece of script bombing with user privileges, but oh well.
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#188533 - 2008-07-02 11:07 PM Re: Creating shortcuts with WshShortcut without admin privileges [Re: PetersonEB]
Allen Administrator Offline
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Loc: USA
There are a couple of wshshortcut udfs on this board. Could you provide a link to the one you are using?
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