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Hi Gnozal, I downloaded the zip-file from your site, but the version-number of the installer.exe is 500 and it's dated November last year. Is it really the version for PB 5.11?

OOPs, I just discovered, that there's a link to the PB-5.1-update right at the beginning of this thread.

I've just received the printed book by Lulu. It's a great book and worth every cent. Thanks a lot.

@jassing
I'm aware of what you say. When the name of the link e. g. "Dos box" is changed to whatever, then it's getting complicate. But in my case all the names of the .lnk files are known and these names will not be changed. Sure, I can change and delete shortcuts by right click the corresponding ...

Thank you, Rashad. Your solution is very elegant. A pity that I was not able to find it.

btw: Is there any chance to delete a shortcut or to change a shortcut [e. g. from strg+1 to alt+F7] using PB in combination with WinApi?

Sorry, Rashad, for my delayed answer, a friend of mine dropped by.

The folder is: "Document and Settings\my user name\desktop". And the file, which icon and shortcut I want to delete, is a self-written exe-file. So it cannot be detected by the msconfig.exe. It's really crazy, the icon disappeared ...

My configuration is: PB 4.61 x86 Windows XP

By the way, it's crazy: The desktop icon has dissappeared after running your code, but the link in the "desktop"-folder still exists. After restarting my computer, the icon can be found on the desktop again.

Hi Rashad, thanks for your answer!! Your code worked (I only had to add this line: linkname$ = path$ + linkname$). The icon disappeared from my desktop. But the shortcut, which was connected with it, still works. Is there a way to get rid off it, too?

No, not exactly. For a certain executable file (e.g. example.exe), I created a desktop icon and corresponding shortcut. My idea is, that it would be nice to delete the desktop icon and(!) its shortcut by specifying only the name of the exe-file (here: example.exe).

Is there an easy way to do the opposite, i. e. to delete desktop icons and shortcuts respectively?

Thanks a lot, srod! Absolutely great! Your work in the field of COM is comparable to Led Zeppelin's contribution to rock music - so to speak!

It's really a great book. I can highly recommend it. Looking forward, when it is updated for PB 4.30!

Perfect! That's what I was looking for. Thanks, Sparkie!

For me it is a nice example 'cause it shows how to make a TextGadget transparent. Does anyone know, how to get other gadgets (e.g. a trackbar-gadget, string-gadget) transparent? Although using #WM_CTLCOLOREDIT to catch the window-message, I had no success.

Thanks, Kiffi! (Ja, das ist genau das, was ich suchte!)

@Kiffi: Sure, I could have asked in the German forum. But I thought, the members of the German forum are also members of the English forum but not vice versa. That is the only reason.

With regard to your example: Yes, I know that I can use the Invoke()-method to open a document. But I try to do the ...