EMERGENCY!

FreakyOCR · 05-30-2002, 04:47 AM

I need help FAST.

No gorey details cuz I'm short on time. How do I make a shortcut that will accomidate a changing drive letter? aka what work as a wildcard for the drive letter????

TIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FreakyOCR · 05-30-2002, 05:11 AM

D:\file.exe

I want D to be a character so that if D

the cdrom) changes (say to e), the shortcut won't get all crabby about it!

muno · 05-30-2002, 05:20 AM

Impossible AFAIK.
Unless you're able to set an environment value of %cdromdrive% to point to a cdrom drive, make a shortcut like %cdromdrive%:\file.exe
-M

TOAD6147 · 05-30-2002, 05:58 AM

Why don't you just change the CD-ROM drive letter to one that will never change, like 'K:' or 'X:'?

FreakyOCR · 05-30-2002, 06:01 AM

Because it will be going into other people's computers.. and nobody has one "standard" configuration

JayMan · 05-30-2002, 07:15 AM

Umm, i'd say give muno's idea a try. the problem with this would be if they had 2 cd-roms (or cdrw etc...)

JayMan

DVNT1 · 05-30-2002, 07:44 AM

With Muno's idea you still need to manually configure the environment variable at each machine. The good part is that with future use the %cdromdrive% will already be set.