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    copied!<p>I want to create a powershell script that creates a shortcut in the windows 7 taskbar, that runs a batch file from cmd.exe.</p> <p>Trying to do as told in these two posts:</p> <ol> <li><a href="https://superuser.com/questions/100249/how-to-pin-either-a-shortcut-or-a-batch-file-to-the-new-windows-7-taskbar">https://superuser.com/questions/100249/how-to-pin-either-a-shortcut-or-a-batch-file-to-the-new-windows-7-taskbar</a></li> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9701840/how-to-create-a-shortcut-using-powershell-or-cmd">How to create a shortcut using Powershell</a></li> </ol> <p>Basically I want to set a shortcut files Target property to be something like:</p> <pre><code>C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C "C:\Dev\Batch files\cmake-guiMSVC1064bit.bat" </code></pre> <p>What I got so far in my powershell script is:</p> <pre><code>$batchPath = "C:\Dev\my_batchfile.bat" $taskbarFolder = "$Home\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\Taskbar\" $cmdPath = (Get-Command cmd | Select-Object Definition).Definition $objShell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell $objShortCut = $objShell.CreateShortcut("$shortcutFolder\$batchName.lnk") #TODO problem ... :( $objShortCut.TargetPath = "$cmdPath /C $batchPath" $objShortCut.Save() </code></pre> <p>This results in the following error: </p> <pre><code>Exception setting "TargetPath": "The parameter is incorrect. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070057 (E_INVALIDARG))" At C:\Dev\Powershell\GetTools.ps1:220 char:18 + $objShortCut. &lt;&lt;&lt;&lt; TargetPath = "$cmdPath /C $batchPath" + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PropertyAssignmentException </code></pre> <p>Anyone got any suggestions?</p>
 

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