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From: Don on 3 Feb 2010 22:55
Hello, I have around 300+ shortcuts that need to have drive letters
changed from c,d,e,f,g, etc to c,d,e,r,g etc.

When I move drives around the shortcuts don't change so i have been
doing it manually but i am tried of doing it that way.

Is there some way to automate this all the shortcuts are in a shortcuts
folder on my desktop.
From: Shenan Stanley on 4 Feb 2010 00:17
Don wrote:
> Hello, I have around 300+ shortcuts that need to have drive letters
> changed from c,d,e,f,g, etc to c,d,e,r,g etc.
>
> When I move drives around the shortcuts don't change so i have been
> doing it manually but i am tried of doing it that way.
>
> Is there some way to automate this all the shortcuts are in a
> shortcuts folder on my desktop.

A little more detail might assist - such as why you need 300+ shortcuts to
drives that you move around/why you move drives around enough for this to be
a concern/etc...

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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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From: Don on 4 Feb 2010 00:41
On 2/3/2010 8:55 PM, Don wrote:
> Hello, I have around 300+ shortcuts that need to have drive letters
> changed from c,d,e,f,g, etc to c,d,e,r,g etc.
>
> When I move drives around the shortcuts don't change so i have been
> doing it manually but i am tried of doing it that way.
>
> Is there some way to automate this all the shortcuts are in a shortcuts
> folder on my desktop.

well i have different operating systems that get installed at different
points that on a few machines the drive letters will never match up. SO
when i have to work on the machine an i need to axcess the shortcut i
manually change them from t:\test access\file1.doc to k:\test
access\file1.doc

some of the machines have drive letters in use all the way up to y: from
card readers, hard drives and drive mappings, so i cannot standardize
the shortcuts.
From: HeyBub on 4 Feb 2010 09:45
Don wrote:
> Hello, I have around 300+ shortcuts that need to have drive letters
> changed from c,d,e,f,g, etc to c,d,e,r,g etc.
>
> When I move drives around the shortcuts don't change so i have been
> doing it manually but i am tried of doing it that way.
>
> Is there some way to automate this all the shortcuts are in a
> shortcuts folder on my desktop.

Assign a share name then use the URL in the shortcut.


From: Paul Randall on 4 Feb 2010 10:50
VBScript, a Windows freebee, is a simple scripting language with easy access
to change the target string of shortcuts.
microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript is a good newsgroup to search for sample
scripts relating to shortcuts and to get help with VBScripts.

-Paul Randall

"Don" <donald7.44(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:umWLr3UpKHA.1552(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Hello, I have around 300+ shortcuts that need to have drive letters
> changed from c,d,e,f,g, etc to c,d,e,r,g etc.
>
> When I move drives around the shortcuts don't change so i have been doing
> it manually but i am tried of doing it that way.
>
> Is there some way to automate this all the shortcuts are in a shortcuts
> folder on my desktop.


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