The following works for me on ActivePerl v5.6.1 on Win2k. It appears to be the minimal solution.

use Win32::Shortcut ();

my $s = Win32::Shortcut->new();
$s->Path('C:\\TEMP');
$s->Save('C:\\TEMP.lnk');

# Test the shortcut.
# Make sure C:\TEMP exists.
# Make sure you have no windows displaying C:\TEMP.
system('start "C:\\TEMP.lnk"');

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The above was extracted from the following longer test:

use strict;
use warnings;

use Win32::Shortcut ();


# Examine existing shortcut to C:\WINNT.

my $s1 = Win32::Shortcut->new();

$s1->Load('C:\\WINNT.lnk');

print map { my $key = $_;
            my $val = $s1->$key();
            sprintf("%-17s %s\n",
               "$key:",
               defined $val ? $val : '[undef]'
            ) }
      qw( Path
          ShortPath
          Arguments
          WorkingDirectory
          Description
          ShowCmd
          Hotkey
          IconLocation
          IconNumber );



# Clone existing shortcut to C:\WINNT.

my $s2 = Win32::Shortcut->new();

do {
   my $key = $_;
   my $val = $s1->$key();
   $s2->$key($val);
} foreach qw( Path
              ShortPath
              Arguments
              WorkingDirectory
              Description
              ShowCmd
              Hotkey
              IconLocation
              IconNumber );

$s2->Save('C:\\WINNT2.lnk');

system('start "C:\\WINNT2.lnk"');


# Create new shortcut to C:\TEMP.

my $s3 = Win32::Shortcut->new();
$s3->Path('C:\\TEMP');
$s3->Save('C:\\TEMP.lnk');

system('start "C:\\TEMP.lnk"');

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In reply to Re: Windows Shortcut Creation by ikegami
in thread Windows Shortcut Creation by gwhite

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