Windows Live Messenger shortcut on Vista

I'm trying to find what the Live Mesenger shortcut actually points to when
it is used to invoke Messenger - I can't see that it points to an
executable. Is it a special type of shortcut?
I am trying to find the executable that gets started by the shortcut so I
can assign that program to a shortcut ket on my keyboard.
Thanks
Mike

Greetings Mike,

It's a standard Windows Installer created shortcut which won't show you.

The executable is at \Program Files\MSN Messenger\msnmsgr.exe
(yes I know it says MSN Messenger).

Just make a new shortcut to it and you can do whatever you like.

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"Michael Taylor" <mike@(nospam)mtcs.ltd.uk> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to find what the Live Mesenger shortcut actually points to when it is used to
> invoke Messenger - I can't see that it points to an executable. Is it a special type of
> shortcut?
> I am trying to find the executable that gets started by the shortcut so I can assign that
> program to a shortcut ket on my keyboard.
> Thanks
> Mike