'Get "Start In" field using batch

I am writing a program that looks at current plugged-in status, whether there's an external graphics card plugged in, and does a handful of things based on the results.

One of which, I am hoping to start programs using Shortcuts that are placed in one of a handful of folders.

This is all well and good. However, one of the programs that needs to be started also needs to have a .ini file replaced in the original location (e.g. C:\Folder\Shortcut.ini) at the time of startup.

SO. I need to get the "Start In" field (e.g. C:\Folder) from the shortcut/.lnk.

How would I go about doing this?

My google-fu is struggling here, because "start in" and "shortcut" all seem to lead to how to create a shortcut to start a batch file in a specific folder or to pass the location you run a batch file from to the program.

:StartPrograms
    if "%Mode%" EQU "Docked" for %%a in ("%RunPath%StartPrograms\Docked\*.lnk") do (start "" %%a)
    if "%Mode%" EQU "EGPU" for %%a in ("%RunPath%StartPrograms\EGPU\*.lnk") do (start "" %%a)
    if "%Mode%" EQU "Handheld" for %%a in ("%RunPath%StartPrograms\Handheld\*.lnk") do (start "" %%a)
    for %%a in ("%RunPath%StartPrograms\Always\*.lnk") do (start "" %%a)

    exit /b

I want the "Start In" field here; or the full path of the shortcut as a string.

batch-file

Solution 1:^[1]

You can call out to WMIC in a batch file as pointed out in this answer.

But you could also call out to Powershell as well within a batch file.

FOR /F "usebackq delims=" %%G IN (`"powershell $sh = New-Object -COM WScript.Shell; $sh.CreateShortcut('C:\Users\Public\Desktop\WinSCP.lnk').WorkingDirectory"`) DO @ECHO %%G

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