Is there a way for a Windows program to find out what shortcut (i.e. .lnk file), if any, it was invoked from, so that it can pick up the shortcut’s icon?
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Is there a way for a Windows program to find out what shortcut (i.e. .lnk file), if any, it was invoked from, so that it can pick up the shortcut’s icon?
You can call
GetStartupInfo()to fill aSTARTUPINFOstructure. If theSTARTF_TITLEISLINKNAMEflag is set, theSTARTUPINFO::lpTitlefield contains the path to the.lnkfile.(This was undocumented for a long time. It probably works all the way back to Win95).