creating quoted path for shortcut with arguments in powershell

Place your quoted string within other quotes, so "\\UNCPATH1\Directory\application.exe" will become '"\\UNCPATH1\Directory\application.exe"'.

$WshShell = New-Object -comObject WScript.Shell$Shortcut = $WshShell.CreateShortcut("$env:ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\supercoolprogram\mrincredible.lnk")$Shortcut.TargetPath = '"\\UNCPATH1\Directory\application.exe"'$Shortcut.Arguments = "argumentA ArgumentB"$Shortcut.WorkingDirectory = '"\\UNCPATH1\Directory"'$Shortcut.Save()

Edit: ...and I was wrong. This does work for the WorkingDirectory property but not the TargetPath property. What does work is to triple-quote your string instead. So, that leads us to this:

$WshShell = New-Object -comObject WScript.Shell$Shortcut = $WshShell.CreateShortcut("$([environment]::GetFolderPath("Desktop"))\mrincredible.lnk")$Shortcut.TargetPath = """\\UNCPATH1\Directory 1\application.exe"""$Shortcut.Arguments = "argumentA ArgumentB"$Shortcut.WorkingDirectory = '"\\UNCPATH1\Directory"'$Shortcut.Save()

Works fine on Windows 8.1 at the very least.

You can escape the quote using `. It's the other symbol on the "~" key.

$Shortcut.TargetPath = "`"\\UNCPATH1\Directory\application.exe`""