.info ... was it so much a good idea?

[skurk]

The implementation of .lnk and .info might be a little different, but unless the .info files do something different than what I remember, the functionality is basically the same.  As far as I remember of .info files, they give you an icon on the screen that launches another file.

Is that not what an .info file is for?

Icon and (optional) configuration settings.  Everything the application needs.

Brilliant design, as opposed to embedding the icon in the exe file and storing the settings in some horrible registry.

[skurk]

Yeah, so they are basicly the same thing.  A .info file is basically a shortcut.

You can't just make that conclusion without elaborating why.

Does a .info file point to another executable?
Does a .lnk file contain icons and settings?

In UNIX terms, a .lnk file is like a fake symbolic link, and a .info file is somewhat similar to the "dot-files".