Error while creating desktop shortcut

[urrahul]

Hi All,

Iam using the following JavaScript to create desktop shortcut

function createShortcut() {
        if (ActiveXObject) {
            // Create desktop shortcut
WshShell = new ActiveXObject( "WScript.Shell" );
            strDesktop = WshShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop");
            oShellLink = WshShell.CreateShortcut(strDesktop + "\\My Shortcut.lnk");
            oShellLink.TargetPath = url;
            oShellLink.WindowStyle = 1;                
            oShellLink.Description = "some description";
            oShellLink.WorkingDirectory = strDesktop;
            oShellLink.Save();
                               }
}

For most of the browser this is working fine but for some a javascript error is shown at line number pointing to oShellLink.Desc ription = "some description";

the error is as follows :

Line: 343
Char: 7
Error: Object doesn't support this action

Code: 0


Can anyone tell what might be the problem? Is it the browser version or OS version or some security setting??

Thanks in advance
Rahul

[acoder]

This will only work in IE.

See this page on MSDN which deals with a similar example to yours. Maybe you can leave out the description line and see if that works.

[urrahul]

Thanks for your reply.
Do we have any restriction on the Windows operating system or Internet explorer browser version for this to function without any problems?


Thanks
rahul