Windows shortcut's references

[nicke85]

Excuse me if this topic was allready opened!

I need to make a few desktop shorcuts to run allways certain programs from my first cdrom device.

So in *.bat files we can use some universal codes like

%WINDIR% - for Windows folder

%cdrom% - boot cd rom device

%RAMD% - for first located RAM drive

And now I want to know how to make shortcut which run always from my first cd rom device.

Examle to be doesn't matter if I have one HDD patition or a thousand else...

the result of running shortcut will be always some program from my first cd-rom device or

from other cd-rom device where is my certain program.

I think that uni code for such shortcut is something like

%cdrom%\folder1\folder2\program.exe

If somebody know that please to help!

ps. (The better way is to find automatic only drive leter if necessary...

but yet if it possible)

[Petr]

Excuse me if this topic was allready opened!

I need to make a few desktop shorcuts to run allways certain programs from my first cdrom device.

So in *.bat files we can use some universal codes like

%WINDIR% - for Windows folder

%cdrom% - boot cd rom device

%RAMD% - for first located RAM drive

You can use everything displayed by SET command, %cdrom% are %RAMD% are not standard.

Petr

[soporific]

And now I want to know how to make shortcut which run always from my first cd rom device.

I don't know of a way to always find the first CD-ROM without using the contents of a particular CD. If you do know what CD you will be using, it is very easy:

1) On your CD, create a unique file for you code to find - ie i use setuptip.txt in my example.

2) And then use this code to set the CDROM letter

:FindCDRM
rem|choice>NUL /c:c /n /t:c,1
IF EXIST D:\setuptip.txt set CDROM=D:
if %cdrom%!==D:! goto FindWind
IF EXIST E:\setuptip.txt set CDROM=E:
if %cdrom%!==E:! goto FindWind
IF EXIST F:\setuptip.txt set CDROM=F:
if %cdrom%!==F:! goto FindWind
IF EXIST G:\setuptip.txt set CDROM=G:
if %cdrom%!==G:! goto FindWind
IF EXIST H:\setuptip.txt set CDROM=H:
if %cdrom%!==H:! goto FindWind
IF EXIST I:\setuptip.txt set CDROM=I:
if %cdrom%!==I:! goto FindWind
IF EXIST J:\setuptip.txt set CDROM=J:
if %cdrom%!==J:! goto FindWind
IF EXIST K:\setuptip.txt set CDROM=K:
if %cdrom%!==K:! goto FindWind
if %cdrom%!==! for %%Z in ("echo Please insert CD..." goto:FINDCDRM) do %%Z

INCIDENTLY, i have always been peed off that Windows 98 does not have a standard variable for the windows installation drive letter. (ie %systemdrive% in WinXP does not exist for Win98). Finally I have figured out a way to set one, although you need to use a special .com file to do it. NSET.com can be downloaded from here

This is the code to set your own custom systemdrive variable in Win98: (put NSET.com into the Windows directory)

:FindWind
SET windrive=NoneFound

:: Need to use a unique directory, code resets Unique value if directory already exists.
SET Unique=%windir%\sylsyl.tra
IF EXIST "%windir%\sylsyl.tra" SET Unique=%windir%\sylsyl1.tra

:: Send the Windows installation directory to a text file
echo %windir% > "%Unique%"

:: Use NSET to read the first character from the file
%windir%\NSET /P1,1 TVar=$1 < "%Unique%"

:: Set the drive letter
SET windrive=%Tvar%:

:: Clean up afterwards
DEL "%Unique%" >nul
SET Unique=

:: Report the drive
Echo. Windows 98 is installed on the %windrive% drive in %windir%

[nicke85]

Cool!!!

I're maked bat files from your code.

It works perfect soporific,thanx a lot!

The second one is the best,i can live with it to use .bat files on my desktop.

But now I'm amusing to put similar code into windows *.lnk (Win shortcut file)

do u maybe know something about it!?