Add an IE Favorite to a User Profile via VBScript

If your company has an IT support website or any other website people need to visit regularly, but never bookmark then this is a handy logon script.

This script creates a shortcut both on the desktop and in IE for the specified website. It is also possible to set a custom icon for the link (I used my company's logo), but that is 100% optional. The icon code is commented out below. Without it your link will have the default Internet Explorer icon.

All you need to do is change "http://example.com" to the website you want to link to.

'------------------------------ 'Author: Christopher Maddalena 'Date: October 17, 2007 'Purpose: Create an IE shortcut for example.com on the user's desktop and favorites list. 'How: The script checks for the existence of the shortcut and, if it does not exists, creates it. ' The shortcut is created in two places under the name "IT SUPPORT.url": ' 1) In the current user's Favorites list in IE. ' 2) In the All Users desktop directory. ' The desktop shortcut is made slightly differently as an .LNK to allow for changing the icon. '------------------------------ Option Explicit Call Main() WScript.Quit(0) On Error Resume Next Sub Main Dim objShell, objShortcut 'Create the desktop shortcut Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set objShortcut = objShell.CreateShortcut("C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\IT SUPPORT.url") objShortcut.TargetPath = objShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("http://example.com") 'objShortcut.IconLocation = "\\FOLDER_PATH\ICON.ICO" objShortcut.Save 'Create the IE favorite Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set objShortcut = objShell.CreateShortcut("C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Favorites\IT SUPPORT.url") objShortcut.TargetPath = objShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("http://example.com") 'objShortcut.IconLocation = "\\FOLDER_PATH\ICON.ICO" objShortcut.Save End Sub