I keep all my small utilities (gnu stuff, tcpview, process explorer and more) in a separated folder, so I can sync them a cloud service. The problem is that every time I want to access any of these tools, I need to navigate to that folder. I made this script in Powershell to collect all *.exe filenames and create a shortcut to each of them in a destination folder, that way we can keep all shortcuts at once in the start menu 🙂
$destDir="$($env:APPDATA)\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\MyUtilities" $executablesRootPath="c:\MyAppsPath" New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $destDir $executablesDir = get-childitem $executablesRootPath -recurse $executables = $executablesDir | where {$_.extension -eq ".exe"} Foreach ($executable in $executables) { $shortName=$executable.Name.Replace(".exe", ".lnk") $shortcutPath="$($destDir)\$($shortName)" $ws = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell $newShortCut = $ws.CreateShortcut($shortcutPath) $newShortCut.TargetPath = $executable.FullName $newShortCut.Save() }