J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

VanguardLH writes:

The format is "path\iexplore.exe url".

In other words - the URL _inside_ the quote marks.

No, that's a statement within a sentence and the quotes were used to
differentiate the portion that is the *command*. You don't understand
how command syntax works? You've never delineated a quoted section
within a sentence? English isn't your native language? Okay, since
that's a problem for you, below is the syntax:

["]path\iexplore.exe["] url

The quotes are needed if path includes space characters. The url
does not need to be quoted because space characters are not valid (the
%20 hex character is used for a space in a URL).

Think about it: you are specifying the *command* in the target field of
a shortcut. If you put the URL string inside the same quoted string as
the program then both the program and url are the program to load.
Nope, one is the program is the other is a parameter given to the
program.

Here's an example of a shortcut used to load the weather.com site using
IE:

"%programfiles%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" http://www.weather.com/

If you put the URL inside the quoted string, guess what you get: "The
filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect." Why?
Because there is no program named "iexplore.exe http://www.weather.com"
in the specified path. Remember that you're using Windows and spaces
ARE allowed in filenames, so the command you specified with the URL
inside the quotes was a .com file that had a space in the filename - and
that's not the case.