Create shortcut in windows programmatically

Question

Is there a way to create link in windows?
I found samples that use VBScript or one has to do download Shortcut.exe.
I need a simple solution. Is that possible?

Answer 1

I had the same problem, so i wrote library for parsing and creating .lnk files. It does not use VBScripts or JNI, java code only. See my Github.

Creating shortcuts: ShellLink.createLink("targetfile", "linkfile.lnk"). You can also set up most parameters of the link. See details and examples in repo.

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