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A shortcut to a VPN connection could be anything.
In this case I'm talking about the native windows VPN software, nothing 3rd party. In the case of Windows 2000 this means going into the Properties of "My Network Places", using make new connection to make a VPN connection, and then creating a shortcut from the connection that subsequently appears in "Network and Dialup Connections"

The upshot of this is that shortcuts created like this are not "normal" shortcuts, they don't point to a file or an executable.