I need to say that, as MCP, I'm 1000% sure that a Shortcut is a file.
It's extension is .lnk, but the format of the file's for Win95 and WinNT are Very very different.. I don't know the format as it is a binairy format.

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Lon Geefshuysen (MCP)
kixtart.to/lon
lon@kixtart.to