Short cuts.

[Guest]

Hi,
I have icons pinned to my start menu. I try to transfer them to my desktop
by right clicking an icon/send to/desktop, but each icon I try this with I
get the message 'Windows could not create the short cut. Check to see if disk
is full', which it isn't. Can anyone please help.
Thank you.
Digijack

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Hi,
I have icons pinned to my start menu. I try to transfer them to my
desktop by right clicking an icon/send to/desktop, but each icon I
try this with I get the message 'Windows could not create the short
cut. Check to see if disk is full', which it isn't. Can anyone please
help.
Thank you.
Digijack

Make sure a shortcut by that name does not already exist on the desktop.

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[David Candy]

Pinned items don't exist. Operations you attempt to carry out happen to the original item.

 

[Guest]

I checked, Frank, there are no icons that are on the desktop and in the start
menu. Any other suggestions welcomed.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your observation, David, but if I right click a short cut icon
on the desktop, a drop-down appears and among the options is pin to start
menu. Once that option is clicked and the icon moves to the start menu, I
would have thought it was pinned to the start menu.

 

[David Candy]

Anything you do or try to do to a pinned item (except Remove From List) is done to the original item. If it was a MFU item then the original is a shortcut on the start menu, if you right clicked a shortcut and choose Pin To Start then that shortcut is the original item, or if you drag a file there (anything can be pinned but the Pin To Start menu option only appears for shortcuts to executables) that file is the original item. While the start menu attempts to prevent you doing anything stupid to the original item (like it removes the delete and move commands) it does allow copy and create shortcut. I'm merely suggesting that you check that you aren't attempting something impossible by shifting your focus from Start to the original item.

Pinned and MFU items are just a count in the registry of each time a start menu executable (what a start menu shortcut points to) is executed (it counts even if started by means other than Start). You can add other files to the list of monitored executables by choosing Pin To Start or dragging a file there. A pinned item has a flag set saying always show. Add/Remove programs also use this list to work out frequency of use of an application (though it guesses what program file goes with what application).

 

[Guest]

Long story short:

Pinned items are *not* shortcuts.

They are a direct link to the "pinned" item.

If the original item isn't there for some reason, then the entry in the
pinned list becomes invalid.

That being said, you SHOULD be able to drag a *valid* pinned item to your
desktop to create a shortcut to it.... works for me...

-JR