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Woodbear99
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March 30th, 2009 16:00
Disappearing desktop shortcut
I have posted this issue before but have not found a satisfactory answer/solution to my vexing problem...which is: For years I have created a desktop shortcut to a much-used Folder containing hundreds of sub-folders of personal data. But recently, no matter HOW I create the shortcut....either thru 'send to' ... create desktop shortcut' or by any other method the shortcut, although easily created, will disappear from the desktop as soon as I reboot the computer and will have to be recreated again. It will NOT remain there permanently as it always did in the past. I think possibly that this situation developed after I switched to the Vista OS (which has more than its share of oddities). Although not a serious problem it is nevertheless very distracting and time-consuming that I constantly have to recreate the shortcut, and I don't know why.... can anyone offer any suggestions? So far no one has. Would there be another way of creating the shortcut so that it is more permanent? ????
Woodbear99
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Posted April 1st, 2009 23:00
Thanks for the suggestion but I have run ccleaner and other cleaners, including registry mechanic, system mechanic, and others...also defragged. None ot these has eliminated the problem. Very frustrating because no other shortcuts disappear like the one that i create for my much used personal folder.
Uncle Ripper
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Posted April 2nd, 2009 07:00
Just curious. Have you right clicked on the icon and gone to properties. By right clicking you can change the icon, select hidden or read only (make sure hidden is not ckd) and make a shortcut key to the icon. Maybe if you made a shortcut key to the folder through icon properties you could still open the folder even if the icon was gone, Just a thought.
Woodbear99
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Posted April 26th, 2009 19:00
Thank you Uncle Ripper ... I am just now getting around to trying your suggestion .... we will see what happens. It is a most aggravating situation to have to keep recreating the shortcut after every reboot. There must be some setting that I inadvertantly changed because I never had this problem for years.
Uncle Ripper
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Posted March 30th, 2009 18:00
I'd suggest completely cleaning up your computer. Download and run Ccleaner both the scan for issues section and the registry scan, delete everything it finds. Next do a disk cleanup and defrag. After your done try to create the shortcut again. BTW, run ad aware also.