Solved trying to create a shortcut

Hi All

I'm trying to create a short cut via CMD

The App
explorer.exe shell:appsFolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftStickyNotes_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App

The Command
if exist "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftStickyNotes*" powershell "$s=(New-Object -COM WScript.Shell).CreateShortcut('%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\Test.lnk');$s.WorkingDirectory='C:\Windows\system32';$s.TargetPath='explorer.exe shell:appsFolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftStickyNotes_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App';$s.Save()"

But its failing.... I suspect its not liking the ':' can anyone help in a work around?

The Error
Value does not fall within the expected range.
At line:1 char:128
+ ... s\system32';$s.TargetPath='explorer.exe shell:appsFolder\Microsoft.Mi ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : OperationStopped: (:) [], ArgumentException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.ArgumentException

That's a convaluted way of trying to do it.
All you have to do is is go to start menu, find sticky notes in all apps list, drag it to desktop, or right click on it in start menu and select pin to start or pin to taskbar

glasskuter said:

That's a convaluted way of trying to do it.
All you have to do is is go to start menu, find sticky notes in all apps list, drag it to desktop, or right click on it in start menu and select pin to start or pin to taskbar

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Thank you... but im running a script to perform this

I'm actually confused by the simple solution.
PS on your command line is treating the ":" in "shell:appsFolder" like $variable:specifier

Wrapping only the "shell:appsFolder" string in double-quotes, and dropping the other double-quotes surrounding the entire command line appears to work fine.

Sometimes mixing CMD and PS on the same command line leads to bizarre variable expansion errors.

if exist "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftStickyNotes*" powershell "$s=(New-Object -COM WScript.Shell).CreateShortcut('%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\Test.lnk');$s.WorkingDirectory='C:\Windows\system32';$s.TargetPath='explorer.exe';$s.Arguments='shell:appsFolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftStickyNotes_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App';$s.Save()"

Ben Myers said:

if exist "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftStickyNotes*" powershell "$s=(New-Object -COM WScript.Shell).CreateShortcut('%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\Test.lnk');$s.WorkingDirectory='C:\Windows\system32';$s.TargetPath='explorer.exe';$s.Arguments='shell:appsFolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftStickyNotes_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App';$s.Save()"

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Thank you!!

glasskuter said:

That's a convaluted way of trying to do it.
All you have to do is is go to start menu, find sticky notes in all apps list, drag it to desktop, or right click on it in start menu and select pin to start or pin to taskbar

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if you can help me copy the link from the apps folder to the desktop.... id be all ears

bonky said:

if you can help me copy the link from the apps folder to the desktop.... id be all ears

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Are you saying that Sticky Notes is NOT in the start menu all apps list.