Creates a shortcut on the public users desktop that points to internet explorer

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Quick Icon shortcut Desktop public internet Explorer

This Script is Used to creates a shortcut on the public users desktop that points to internet explorer

1. Download an icon file from an internet URL if we so desire (make it easy to comment out if we do not need that)
2. Creates a shortcut file in c:\users\public\desktop (Windows 7 and above) and allows us to easily change the icon to a file of our choosing
3. Shortcut should point to C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe (Or whatever path we determine is correct to get to IE) and allow a command line argument of a URL to access such as www.google.com
4. Script should be able to specify an icon file for the shortcut

1.Give the Download icon URL 2.Give the preferred path location 3.Give any icon file name as per your wish Eg: URL='http://www.iconarchive.com/download/i50371/hopstarter/orb/Internet-Explorer.ico' #Give the Download icon URL src_path="C:\Users\win732dt\Downloads\icon" #Give the preferred path location fileName = '1.ico'#Give any icon file name as per your wish

Procedure's Instructions

URL='http://www.iconarchive.com/download/i50371/hopstarter/orb/Internet-Explorer.ico' #Give the Download icon URL
src_path="C:\Users\win732dt\Downloads\icon" #Give the preferred path location
import os
import ctypes

class disable_file_system_redirection:
    _disable = ctypes.windll.kernel32.Wow64DisableWow64FsRedirection
    _revert = ctypes.windll.kernel32.Wow64RevertWow64FsRedirection
    def __enter__(self):
        self.old_value = ctypes.c_long()
        self.success = self._disable(ctypes.byref(self.old_value))
    def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
        if self.success:
            self._revert(self.old_value)
import urllib
def Download(src_path, URL):
    import urllib2
    import os
    print "Icon Download started"
    fileName = '1.ico'#Give any icon file name as per your wish
    fp = os.path.join(src_path, fileName)
    request = urllib2.Request(URL, headers={'User-Agent' : "Magic Browser"})
    parsed = urllib2.urlopen(request)
    if os.path.exists(src_path):
        print "icon downloaded Path already exists"
    if not os.path.exists(src_path):
        os.makedirs(src_path)
        print "icon downloaded Path created"
    with open(fp, 'wb') as f:
        while True:
            chunk=parsed.read(100*1000*1000)
            if chunk:
                f.write(chunk)
            else:
                break
    print "The file downloaded successfully in specified path"
    return fp
si=Download(src_path, URL)
de= '"'+si+'"'
print de
vbs=r'''
Dim WshProcEnv
Dim process_architecture
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strDesktop = WshShell.SpecialFolders("AllUsersDesktop")
Set WshProcEnv = WshShell.Environment("Process")
Set oShellLink = WshShell.CreateShortcut(strDesktop & "\Internet Explorer.lnk")
process_architecture= WshProcEnv("PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE") 
If process_architecture = "x86" Then
    oShellLink.TargetPath = "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"
Else
    oShellLink.TargetPath = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"
End If
oShellLink.WindowStyle = 1
oShellLink.IconLocation = %s
oShellLink.Hotkey = "CTRL+SHIFT+F"
oShellLink.Description = "Shortcut Script"
oShellLink.WorkingDirectory = strDesktop
oShellLink.Arguments = "https://www.google.com"
oShellLink.Save
'''% (de)
def runvbs(vbs):
    workdir=os.environ['PROGRAMDATA']+r'\temp'
    if not os.path.isdir(workdir): 
        os.mkdir(workdir)
    with open(workdir+r'\temprun.vbs',"w") as f :
        f.write(vbs)        
    with disable_file_system_redirection():
        print os.popen('cscript.exe "'+workdir+r'\temprun.vbs"').read()
        print('Script execution completed successfully')
    if os.path.isfile(workdir+r'\temprun.vbs'):
        os.remove(workdir+r'\temprun.vbs')

runvbs(vbs)

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