Shortcut rant
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So I get home from work a little early and attempt to load up guitar hero. Except it's disappeared out of the Windows 7 "Games" menu (the one thats on the right-side column of the start menu). It's there on some days and not on other days for some reason (and the games CD is in each time so it isn't that). It's not the only game to only appear intermittently. So I navigate directly to the shortcut under the games group in All Programs. I try the shortcut and nothing happens. I right click the games folder and open but it's not there as it only opens the current user one and the shortcut is under "All Users" instead. So I go there, try the shortcut and nothing happens. I bring up properties to see where it's pointing to and its one of the nasty kind which doesn't tell you (start in field is grayed out and "Open File Location" just brings up the games folder which doesn't even contain the game). I eventually just navigate to the executable under Program Files (x86) and run it directly, which works fine. What happened to the old style shortcuts that used to tell you where they pointed to and which always worked? I'd delete the existing shortcut and replace it with a real one but last time I tried deleting one of these kinds of shortcuts (for MS Office), Windows Installer popped up trying to repair itself and got itself in some infinite loop which I had to reboot the whole system to recover from.
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So I get home from work a little early and attempt to load up guitar hero. Except it's disappeared out of the Windows 7 "Games" menu (the one thats on the right-side column of the start menu). It's there on some days and not on other days for some reason (and the games CD is in each time so it isn't that). It's not the only game to only appear intermittently. So I navigate directly to the shortcut under the games group in All Programs. I try the shortcut and nothing happens. I right click the games folder and open but it's not there as it only opens the current user one and the shortcut is under "All Users" instead. So I go there, try the shortcut and nothing happens. I bring up properties to see where it's pointing to and its one of the nasty kind which doesn't tell you (start in field is grayed out and "Open File Location" just brings up the games folder which doesn't even contain the game). I eventually just navigate to the executable under Program Files (x86) and run it directly, which works fine. What happened to the old style shortcuts that used to tell you where they pointed to and which always worked? I'd delete the existing shortcut and replace it with a real one but last time I tried deleting one of these kinds of shortcuts (for MS Office), Windows Installer popped up trying to repair itself and got itself in some infinite loop which I had to reboot the whole system to recover from.
Dave Parker wrote:
What happened to the old style shortcuts that used to tell you where they pointed to and which always worked?
none of my top-level Office start menu shortcuts work, at all - on Vista. they're all evil non-file-target style shortcuts. i've read that the problem is mis-behaving explorer extensions, but i've never had any luck finding the bad ones.