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The foundations for Manageability in Windows is Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI; formerly WBEM) and WMI extensions for Windows Driver Model (WDM).

ActiveXperts Network Monitor provides the ability to build monitor check routines based on WMI. ActiveXperts has collected more than a hundred WMI samples. You can use these samples as a base for new check routines you can write yourself. The Win32_ShortcutAction WMI class can be used in ActiveXperts Network Monitor to monitor your servers.

Description

The Win32_ShortcutAction WMI class manages the creation of shortcuts. In the Advertise mode, the action creates shortcuts to the key files of components of features that are enabled. Advertised shortcuts are those for which the Target property is the feature of the component and the directory of the shortcut is one of the Shell folders or below one. Advertised shortcuts are created with a Microsoft installer technology Descriptor as the target. Non-advertised shortcuts are those for which the Target property in the Win32_ShortcutAction class is a property or the directory of the shortcut is not one of the Shell folders or below one. In the non-advertise mode (normal install), the action creates shortcuts to the key files of components of features that are selected for installation as well as non-advertised shortcuts whose component is selected for installation.

Sample Code

On Error Resume Next
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ShortcutAction",,48)
For Each objItem in colItems
    Wscript.Echo "ActionID: " & objItem.ActionID
    Wscript.Echo "Arguments: " & objItem.Arguments
    Wscript.Echo "Caption: " & objItem.Caption
    Wscript.Echo "Description: " & objItem.Description
    Wscript.Echo "Direction: " & objItem.Direction
    Wscript.Echo "HotKey: " & objItem.HotKey
    Wscript.Echo "IconIndex: " & objItem.IconIndex
    Wscript.Echo "Name: " & objItem.Name
    Wscript.Echo "Shortcut: " & objItem.Shortcut
    Wscript.Echo "ShowCmd: " & objItem.ShowCmd
    Wscript.Echo "SoftwareElementID: " & objItem.SoftwareElementID
    Wscript.Echo "SoftwareElementState: " & objItem.SoftwareElementState
    Wscript.Echo "Target: " & objItem.Target
    Wscript.Echo "TargetOperatingSystem: " & objItem.TargetOperatingSystem
    Wscript.Echo "Version: " & objItem.Version
    Wscript.Echo "WkDir: " & objItem.WkDir
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