When you create a short on your system it points to a file on YOUR system.
When you took that shortcut and transferred it to the other computer it is
still looking for the original file on your system.  A shortcut is only a
pointer to the actual file that runs the program that the shortcut was
created for.  Put simply, the shortcut is like a batch file that is written
to run an executable file somewhere on your system.  The batch file is not
technically the file that runs the program, just the directions to the file
that actually runs the program.

Dale Bryant
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>I appreciate your response however I want to know what in contents on the
>short-cut file is. For instance, I copied a short-cut over the network to
>another computer. As long as my machine is on the network it works, takes
>longer to load than mine but it works. If my machine is not on the network
>the copied short-cut will not work. There must be something in the
>short-cut that points to my machine (the error message says can't find the
>executable that the short-cut points to. This is why I want to know what is
>in the short-cut file not just what the short-cut properties point to.