Problem creating a shorcut

[Tim Golden]

Wolfgang Draxinger wrote:
> 1) you should not hardcode the backslashes ('\'), instead use
> os.sep for it.

With respect, the OP is creating a Windows desktop shortcut.
Unless Microsoft suddenly decide to change their use of the 
backslash, I suggest that this is a needless generalisation.

> 3) You assume, that Firefox is always installed at C:\Program
> Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
> However the path largely differs from system to system. 

This is broadly true. However, it's fairly clear from the
phrase "the user's desktop" that the OP is working in some
kind of corporate environment where he can be fairly sure
where Firefox is installed by policy. In addition, it's not so
easy to find its path if it's not in the default place since apps 
very rarely add their location to the system PATH these days 
(and Firefox certainly doesn't). You could scan the registry for 
its App Paths entry in the registry but I don't know if any other 
way if it's not  the default browser (which it's clear from the 
original post it  may not be).

Sorry to sound a bit negative, but I felt that a couple of your points, 
while valid, were not altogether helpful to the situation the OP was in.

TJG