XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32, alt.windows7.general   
   From: egenagwemdimtapsar@jbohm.dk   
      
   On 2025-09-04 08:22, R.Wieser wrote:   
   > Shugo,   
   >   
   >> so you have to add these 2 flags   
   >>   
   >> SLDF_FORCE_NO_LINKINFO   
   >> SLDF_FORCE_NO_LINKTRACK   
   >   
   > I did, and saw no difference.   
   >   
   > Thats the problem with "just do it" suggestions.  Without test cases and/or   
   > description *when* those flags should have effect its rather hard to check   
   > (w|t)hat they actually do. :-(   
   >   
   >   
   > But have you noticed this :   
   >   
   > "Deleting those two pieces of information means that the shell cannot use   
   > them to help find the shortcut.   
   >   
   > *If the file doesn't exist at the specified absolute path*,   
   >   
   > then the relative path will be applied to the location of the shortcut   
   > itself, and the shell will look for the file at the resulting location"   
   >   
   > (bolding mine)   
   >   
   > That means that the "its now relative" trick will only work when the   
   > origional target file isn't there anymore.   
   >   
   > Now imagine copying a folder-tree, containing a document and a shortcut to   
   > it, to somewhere else , and than double-clicking the copied shortcut to edit   
   > the also just copied document.   
   >   
   > You won't like the result. :-|   
   >   
      
   Indeed, and that is why I always disable the "Distributed Link Tracking"   
   services in Windows installations that contain them, as those services   
   exist only to produce the same wrong result for links within OLE2-style   
   documents (a concept which includes MS Office 9x, Explorer shell   
   shortcut files etc. etc.) .   
      
      Enjoy   
      
      Jakob   
      
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