favourite links not creating shortcuts!

[kateinsoll]

I managed to delete my Links folder in my user profile. After some
googling I recreated it by typing "shell:links" in the run
command.

But now when I drag a file into the Favorite Links area of the
Navigation pane, it's copying the files instead of creating a
shortcut!

I can force it to create a shortcut by holding down the Alt key - but
this is painful. Is there anyway to get it back to how it used to be?

 

[Keith Miller \(MVP\)]

It needs its desktop.ini file. Copy the following (between the lines) into
notepad:

-------------------------------------------
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21810
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-185
DefaultDropEffect=4
[LocalizedFileNames]
[email protected],-21816
[email protected],-9031
Recently [email protected],-32813
[email protected],-21790
[email protected],-21779
[email protected],-21770
----------------------------------------------
and save in the 'Links' folder as 'desktop.ini'

Press & hold the <shift> key and right-click in the folder background &
select 'Open Command Window Here'. Then execute the following:

attrib +h +s desktop.ini

cd ..

attrib +r links

Setting the read-only attribute for the folder tells Explorer to process the
desktop.ini file.