windows - create shortcut to printer with powershell-CodePudding

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Thus, my question is: How do I create a shortcut that is equivalent to the shortcut created when using the right-click option Create Shortcut on a printer on the devices and printers page with powershell?

CodePudding user response：

The correct shortcut does not point to rundll32.exe, it points to the printer in the shell namespace. This target is an item id list, not a filesystem path.

I don't know the native way to do this in Powershell. With P/invoke it would be SHParseDisplayName IShellLink::SetIDList.

You would probably want to go the reverse way first; on a correct link, get its id list and call SHGetNameFromIDList(...,SIGDN_DESKTOPABSOLUTEPARSING,...). The returned string would look something like ::{GUIDHERE}\::{ANOTHERGUID}\MyPrinterName.

CodePudding user response：

Thanks to Anders for bringing me onto the right track.

You can achieve it like this:

Get a list of all devices and printers:

$shell = New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application
$devices_and_printers = $shell.namespace("::{26EE0668-A00A-44D7-9371-BEB064C98683}\2\::{A8A91A66-3A7D-4424-8D24-04E180695C7A}")
$devices_and_printers.items() | select name,path

Create shortcut:

$WshShell = New-Object -comObject WScript.Shell
$Shortcut = $WshShell.CreateShortcut("$env:userprofile\Desktop\My Printer.lnk")
$Shortcut.TargetPath = ($devices_and_printers.items() | where { $_.name -eq "My Printer Name" }).Path
$Shortcut.Save()