How to make a shortcut from CMD?

There is some very useful information on this site: http://ss64.com/nt/shortcut.html Seems like there is some in some resource kit which I don't have. As many other sites mention, there is no built-in way to do it from a batch file. But you can do it from a VB script: Optional sections in the VBscript below are commented out: So, if you really must do it, then you could make your batch file write the VB script to disk, invoke it and then remove it again. For example, like so: Running the above …