IShellLink::GetPath returns the wrong path. Why?
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From: nki00 on 28 Sep 2009 01:23 I'm trying to get a file path from a .lnk file. I'm using the following code for that: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/130698 In most cases it works flawlessly, but for some links it doesn't work. Here's an example. If anyone of you has a newer MS Word (version 2003 and later), if you try it with its shortcut from the start menu, the return path will be something like this: c:\windows\installer\{90110409-6000-11d3-8cfe-0150048383c9}\wordicon.exe when the Word itself is located in a totally different folder. If I run this file nothing happens, but if I run the link itself in the Start -> Run, the real Word application starts. Can you tell me what am I not doing right to get this path?
From: Christian ASTOR on 28 Sep 2009 02:14
On 28 sep, 07:23, "nki00" <lukkycha...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to get a file path from a .lnk file. I'm using the following code > for that:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/130698 > In most cases it works flawlessly, but for some links it doesn't work. > Here's an example. If anyone of you has a newer MS Word (version 2003 and later), if you try it with its shortcut from the start menu, the return path will be something like this: > c:\windows\installer\{90110409-6000-11d3-8cfe-0150048383c9}\wordicon.exe These are MSI shortcuts. Use MsiGetShortcutTarget() - MsiGetComponentPath() |