How to create Disk shortcut on desktop using Powershell?

Question

I'm trying to create a shortcut to my disk C on desktop using PowerShell.

$TargetFile = "$env:C:\"
$ShortcutFile = "$env:E:\Users\Oskar.lnk"
$WScriptShell = New-Object  -ComObject WScript.Shell
$Shortcut = $WScriptShell.CreateShortcut($ShortcutFile)
$Shortcut.TargetPath = $TargetFile
$Shortcut.Save()

The problem is it creates a shortcut but in some random localization on C drive.
My Desktop is on E drive. How is it possbile that the shortcut is created on C drive if the path is E:\\Users\\Oskar.

Does anyone know how to solve this issue?.
Thanks in advance, Oskar.

Answer 1

$env:VAR looks for an environment variable named VAR .

So your "$env:E:\\Users\\Oskar.lnk" looks for an environment variable named E:\\Users\\Oskar.lnk , which doesn't exist, so it uses an empty string.

This causes your shortcut to be saved to the (Win32 process's) current directory (note: this is not necessarily the same as PowerShell's current directory).

You should use $ShortcutFile = "E:\\Users\\Oskar.lnk" .

Similarly for the other place where you've used $env: ...