cool, both work
I had sort of already figured out a version of spikes, made a batch file in c:\ and made a short cut to point to it.
But Nodsus method pretty cool, not intuitive, but slick, and lets me assign a icon, because it is still a shortcut.
BTW, I used to know a way to make the little shortcut arrow not appear on the icon, back in 98 days. can that still be done?
thanks guys