Windoze Shortcuts
Jim Herrmann
b3d at kc.rr.com
Fri Oct 19 04:24:52 CDT 2001
This is sort of off topic, but i have a problem with my Win NT 4 Compaq
Laptop machine at work that the Windows weenies can't solve. I present
this here because the problem first reared it's head when I was at the
LUG meeting Tuesday night, and you guys have a wide variety of knowledge
and skills. Here's the deal.
My shortcuts stopped working. This means most things on the desktop
don't work, and nothing in the start menu works. I can still launch
programs from explorer and the run... window. The first manifestation
was at the meeting when I booted the laptop to make a boot floppy. At
that time I noticed the items in the Startup folder came up with the
"Open With.." window. The next day, I noticed the real extent of the
problem, in that nothing could launch. I never realized how important
shortcuts were to Windoze ease of use. I can't get to a command prompt
with out the Run.. box.
Things I have looked at and or tried to fix this include downloading
Powertoys and using TweakUI to try to fix the icons. No luck. I looked
at the registry and compared it to other machines that work, and I can
see no difference for the .lnk extension. I tried deleting and reading
the .lnk extension in the View Options->File Types dialog. This made
things worse, as then the icons turned into the default icon. We tried
deleting my profile, which had no effect. This problem affects all
users on this machine.
Any ideas? The solution the PC guys have is to nuke my drive and lay
down a new image. I really don't want to do this if I can help it.
Thanks for any suggestions you might have.
I hate windows more each day,
Jim
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