Overview
What is Create Shortcut?
Create Shortcut : Create shortcuts to programs from a command prompt or a bat / cmd file
In depth
A closer look at Create Shortcut
Create Shortcut application was designed to be a small program that makes it possible to create shortcuts to programs from a command prompt or a bat / cmd file. To be of any use to anyone who writes bat / cmd files CreateShortcut gives back a returncode. You can use this returncode by using ERRORLEVEL in the bat/cmd file. Table 1 shows the returncodes and their meaning.You control CreateShortcut by a number of commandline arguments (se Usage below). The very least you must supply to CreateShortcut to make a shortcut is the path to the shortcut file (including ".lnk") and what program that should be started when the shortcut is used. For this you use the arguments -l XXX and -p YYY. Keep in mind that if the filepath contains space you must use quotationmarks (") around it.UsageCreateShortcut [-h -o -q] -l LinkFile -p Program [-w WorkingDir] [-a Arguments]Arguments:-h Show this helpscreen and don't create shortcut-o Overwrite existing shortcut-q Quiet, don't show program information-l Shortcut to create with .lnk-extension-p Program that the shortcut should refer to-w Working directory for the program in Command-a Arguments to the program in CommandExample:
Verdict
Should you download Create Shortcut?
Create Shortcut runs on
Windows 10/11
and is available under the
Freeware
license
— the installer is 31 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
System.
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At a glance
Create Shortcut specifications
- Publisher
-
Mikael Holm
- Last updated
- Apr 28, 2026
- License
- Freeware
- Operating system
- Windows 10/11
- File size
- 31 KB
- Price
- Free
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