Cannot Create a shortcut under Allusers startup folder

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My application creates a shortcut under all users startup folder. Its
currently failing for home basic edition of Vista. On all other edition it
works fine.

Even If I go to all users startup
folder[C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup] on home
basic edition and try to create a shortcut it gives a error message "windows
cannot create a shortcut here"

Has anybody faced similar problem? Any solution for this problem?
 
santosh said:
My application creates a shortcut under all users startup folder. Its
currently failing for home basic edition of Vista. On all other edition it
works fine.

Even If I go to all users startup
folder[C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup] on
home
basic edition and try to create a shortcut it gives a error message
"windows
cannot create a shortcut here"

Has anybody faced similar problem? Any solution for this problem?
Click to expand...

Why don't you just create a desktop short-cut and cut and paste it to the
area and be done with it?
 
I tried to create shortcut in other location and then tried to copy the
shortcut to allusers startup folder. But copyfile/movefile fails with access
denied error code. [This happen when UAC is turned on] :(

Mr. Arnold said:
santosh said:
My application creates a shortcut under all users startup folder. Its
currently failing for home basic edition of Vista. On all other edition it
works fine.

Even If I go to all users startup
folder[C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup] on
home
basic edition and try to create a shortcut it gives a error message
"windows
cannot create a shortcut here"

Has anybody faced similar problem? Any solution for this problem?
Click to expand...

Why don't you just create a desktop short-cut and cut and paste it to the
area and be done with it?
Click to expand...
 
Right click on Start Orb,select Open All Users
This will give you the necessary permissions to create or past your shortcut.


santosh said:
I tried to create shortcut in other location and then tried to copy the
shortcut to allusers startup folder. But copyfile/movefile fails with access
denied error code. [This happen when UAC is turned on] :(

Mr. Arnold said:
santosh said:
My application creates a shortcut under all users startup folder. Its
currently failing for home basic edition of Vista. On all other edition it
works fine.

Even If I go to all users startup
folder[C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup] on
home
basic edition and try to create a shortcut it gives a error message
"windows
cannot create a shortcut here"

Has anybody faced similar problem? Any solution for this problem?
Click to expand...

Why don't you just create a desktop short-cut and cut and paste it to the
area and be done with it?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
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