Shortcut icon does not launch properly

We have several WIN98 stations.
A shortcut icon was built on one station and it launches successfully.
When copied via CD or floppy to a second station, this shortcut causes the second station to hang.
It is desirable to be able to run a shortcut interchangeably on multiple stations - as part of a software configuration process when CM-controlled software is modified and updated (and copied to multiple stations).

I remember encountering this problem (years ago), but not the exact solution.
Help, anyone??

 

shortcut info.....

The systems are "identical" - the shortcut uses the same file structure - the original creation of shortcut #1, its copy/transfer to station #2, and its launch were performed by experienced software engineers.

The "work around ", is that we re-create the shortcut on each station. This process launches and works, but is more efficient to be able to use a master copy of all files.

 

Hi, Shortcuts are a wierd entity as they can also include the ID of the PC
on which they where created. You have found the only sure (and tedious)
solution - newly create the solution on each PC.
Oddly enough, if I recreate the entire boot drive on this PC to my backup machine, everything, including shortcuts, works fine.
I can thus only assume that the copy function itself adds the source PC ID.
Maybe this problem can be solved with a master .zip floppy that stores
the .lnk file, instead of a peer-to-peer direct copy ?
You could keep Zip and Unzip on the floppy for ease of use.
I have never tried that.
regards