Launching a Shortcut from VB

[Judgey]

With ref to my previous problem about displaying files I which I cannot work out I have the a listview with the filenames of shortcuts which are retrieved from the Start Menu.

eg. C:\windows\Start Menu\Product Support\Payroll\Help Files\Printers.lnk

or

C:\windows\Start Menu\Product Support\Payroll\Web Links\Inland Revenue.url

How do I launch these shortcuts, I have tried the Shell command and also the ShellExecute API Call but neither work ?

API Used :

Public Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long

and then called by :

ShellExecute 0&, "Open", FilePS.Path & "\" & Item, 0, 0, SW_NORMAL

[Cubbie]

For the URL:

Dim ProcessID As Long
'Path to a web browser and path to URL
ProcessID = Shell("C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe C:\windows\Start Menu\Product Support\Payroll\Web Links\Inland Revenue.url", 1)

For the lnk file

Mak a .bat file called Printers.bat with the path to the lnk file and then execute the .lnk file from the batch file as follows:

ProcessID = Shell("The path to printers.bat", 1)

[coolbiz]

you can also use:
"cmd.exe /c start <url/link>"

for winme/9x, use command.exe instead of cmd.exe

-Cool Bizs