How to add command line options to shortcut?

Have you tried to add in the Target field

"c:\path\to\exe\program.exe" -option1 -option2

Only the program path and name need to be enclosed in quotes.


Place the switches after the quotes.

Only the program path is kept in quotes due to spaces in the path. Something like My Documents will not resolve properly due to the space between the words, so quotes are needed. This is also why you probably won't find a program with multi-word switches (that are seperate) such as --example switch. You will usually see something like --example-switch instead because a space constitutes a separate program argument.