How to programmatically change .lnk to change its purpose?

Question

Is there a way to open a Windows shortcut (.lnk file) and change its purpose? I found the following snippet that allows me to find the current target, but this property is read-only:

Shell32::Shell^ shl = gcnew Shell32::Shell();
String^ shortcutPos = "C:\\some\\path\\to\\my\\link.lnk";
String^ lnkPath = System::IO::Path::GetFullPath(shortcutPos);
Shell32::Folder^ dir = shl->NameSpace(System::IO::Path::GetDirectoryName(lnkPath));
Shell32::FolderItem^ itm = dir->Items()->Item(System::IO::Path::GetFileName(lnkPath));
Shell32::ShellLinkObject^ lnk = (Shell32::ShellLinkObject^)itm->GetLink;
String^ target = lnk->Target->Path;

I can not find anything to change the goal. Is my only way to create a new shortcut to overwrite the current one? .. and if so, how to do it?

Answer 1

This is not just for reading, use lnk-> Path instead of lnk-> Save (). Assuming you have write permissions to the file. C # code that does the same is in my answer to this thread .

Answer 2

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public void CreateLink(string shortcutFullPath, string target)
{
    WshShell wshShell = new WshShell();
    IWshRuntimeLibrary.IWshShortcut newShortcut = (IWshRuntimeLibrary.IWshShortcut)wshShell.CreateShortcut(shortcutFullPath);
    newShortcut.TargetPath = target;
    newShortcut.Save();
}

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Shell32

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public void ChangeLinkTarget(string shortcutFullPath, string newTarget)
{
    // Load the shortcut.
    Shell32.Shell shell = new Shell32.Shell();
    Shell32.Folder folder = shell.NameSpace(Path.GetDirectoryName(shortcutFullPath));
    Shell32.FolderItem folderItem = folder.Items().Item(Path.GetFileName(shortcutFullPath));
    Shell32.ShellLinkObject currentLink = (Shell32.ShellLinkObject)folderItem.GetLink;

    // Assign the new path here. This value is not read-only.
    currentLink.Path = newTarget;

    // Save the link to commit the changes.
    currentLink.Save();
}

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