How to create a relative shortcut ?
"R.Wieser" <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Sep 2025 11:36:46 +0200
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Hello all, I'm trying to create relative shortcuts* (for use on a removable USB harddisk) and can't seem to find out how it works. * the target of the link is relative to the location of the link itself. I'm programming against the IShellLink interface ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shobjidl_core/nn-shobjidl_core-ishelllinka) , which suggests a relative path is possible (SetRelativePath), but I'm not able to get it to work or find code explaining how to do it. I did find this : https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20171019-00/?p=97247 , but I'm not even sure if that is what I'm after ... :-| Question: does someone have an example to what I'm supposed to do to make it happen ? Regards, Rudy Wieser