Cannot make a shortcut...

[Øyvind Granberg]

Hi...

I cannot make a shortcut anywhere in any folder on my computer.
Windows Vista Ulitmate
AVG 8
No firewall
Running as a user with admin rights...

Right clicking in a folder and choose "New shortcut" yields no reactions at
all!!!

What is wrong?

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Øyvind Granberg

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www.tresfjording.com

 

[Gordon]

If this answer has been of help to you, then please add to my Reputation

I would if you'd quoted the post you are replying to.

The "forum" that you are posting in leaches off the Microsoft News servers
in order to make it look far busier than it really is. Everyone who uses the
MS News servers sees your post on it's own - we have NO IDEA what you are
talking about and to whom you are talking.

If you MUST continue to post in this "forum" then please at least quote the
post you are replying to.
You would be far better off however, using a news reader and subscribing to
these news groups direct.

Setting up Outlook Express/Windows Mail to access Microsoft newsgroups
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

Accessing the MS newsgroups in Outlook Express/Windows Mail Newsreader
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroupsetup.mspx


Thank you

 

[Gordon]

To Gordon:

MS News servers sees your post on it's own - we have NO IDEA what you
are
talking about and to whom you are talking.

Which is precisely why I don't want to post in the news server. This
forum organizes it all in a nice thread. Besides, the signature I put
on my messages is meant for primarily the questioner to add to my
reputation. Since the question appears in the forum, it is possible to
do so...

But you need to understand, that because Vistax64 forums LEACH off the MS
newsgroups, WE, the users of the MS Newsgroups get fed up with seeing
orphaned posts from yours and many other, forums that do this. Please would
you email the owners to tell them to get people to follow Usenet etiquette
if their forum is going to continue to LEACH off the MS news servers...

 

[Øyvind Granberg]

Didn't work ... :-((

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[R. C. White]

Hi, Gordon.

AMEN!!

It's amazing (and depressing) to me that LeeTutor doesn't understand what
you are saying. :>(

Why don't "forum" organizers keep THEIR posts in THEIR forum? Because, as
you said, they LEACH from the MS public news server to make their own forum
look (a) busier and (b) more expert than it really is. The worst of those
forums don't even tell their "members" that the help they receive is coming
from OUTSIDE their forum.

It seems to me that almost every OP (original post) that I've read here in
this Microsoft public newsgroup this morning has originated on some forum or
another and been relayed here - probably with no notice to the poster. That
poster has "joined" that forum and has typed in his/her secret password to
read messages there, so he/she probably has an expectation of at least SOME
PRIVACY. And, without even telling the poster, the forum manager has
relayed the question to the Usenet and to this Microsoft news server, so
that the poster's questions and comments are posted openly to news servers
all over the world. And then the poster wonders how perfect (or imperfect)
strangers seem to know about his/her supposedly private conversations that
were posted only on a "private" forum. :>(

I am often surprised to see MY posts in forums where I've never posted at
all. While I'm happy that my wonderful advice is being disseminated far and
wide to users who might benefit from it, I'm dismayed that follow-up
questions or other responses will probably never come to my attention. And
those forum operators will claim the credit for helping, credit that rightly
belongs to the Microsoft public news server for providing the link between
user and helper.

Oh, well. Enough preaching. I'm off my soapbox for now.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 0908 in Win7 x64 6801)

 

[the wharf rat]

add to my reputation.

Well, so far your reputation here ain't so good. Please don't
reply to Usenet posts in bizarre out of context ways that are meant to
somehow warp a community resource to your own purposes.

 

[Dick D.]

Which is precisely why I don't want to post in the news server. This
forum organizes it all in a nice thread. Besides, the signature I put
on my messages is meant for primarily the questioner to add to my
reputation.

Ah, yes... now the REAL reason you like the web interface: your
"reputation".

In case you haven't noticed, it's taking a beating in the real Usenent
world.

 

[Øyvind Granberg]

Have you all forgotten my request?!?

I have googled around a little, and found out that this is really not a
detached problem. Many others have it too.
But still I can't find a solution...

Solutions like reinstall or system restore are not first choice. May be not
even final choices...
It's like after a tire blows up on your car, you go and get a new car
instead of fixing the tire....

Is this a user account issue, may be?

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[Mick Murphy]

Right-click>Send To> Create Desktop Shortcut

 

[MP Descartes]

However, I agree that our members need to follow usenet etiquette
better, like quoting posts when they reply in these MS newsgroups.

Instead of bashing and putting down people, perhaps you should teach
them instead by reminding them of the proper usenet etiquette. There are
folks out there that are new to this and do not understand this despite
knowing that these are part of the MS newsgroups instead of the forum
itself.

Not our job... it's yours.

Why don't you put together a tutorial for all your users and force
them to read it before making their first post.

Or at least refer them to it after they sign up.

 

[Gordon]

Hello Gordon and R.C. White,

I resent the statement that we Vistax64 "leach" off the MS newsgroups.
I cannot speak for all forums, but our forum tries to help "Contribute"
to these MS newsgroups and make it better, not "Leach".

Then why do MY posts, that I post DIRECT to msnews.microsoft.com APPEAR ON
YOUR FORUM if it doesn't leach off the MS news server?

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Shawn.

You've helped many users here and I am impressed by your obvious expertise
and your willingness to help others.

It was a frustrating newsgroup morning today. It seemed that every thread
here started with "Re:" in the Subject line and "I've got the same problem"
in the body of the message, with no clue as to what the "same" problem might
have been. And a quick check of the headers showed that each of the posts
were relayed here from the "vBulletin USENET gateway" or some similar
source.

So when I saw Gordon's post, I was ready to say, "Amen!" I don't usually
use the word "leach" (or "leech") in this context; I'm more likely to say
that other news servers "slurp" messages from here and relay them - and any
responses - back and forth, resulting in posts that are sometimes out of
sequence or lost. Today's posts were mostly moving the other direction -
from forums to these NGs - but with no context or not enough context to
allow us to understand the user's problem. We MVPs and other helpers here
WANT to help. That's why we're here. (I know that's why YOU are here, too,
Shawn.) But it's very frustrating to try to respond intelligently to such a
bare-naked post. After a dozen or so in a row, the frustration level gets
pretty high.

In your forum, Shawn, who decides WHICH posts get migrated to the MS server?
And how do you decide how much context to include?

I agree with your comments about the trolls and other "noise" in these
public NGs.

However, I agree that our members need to follow usenet etiquette
better, like quoting posts when they reply in these MS newsgroups.

But your members don't know that their posts are going to these MS
newsgroups! That's a big part of what causes our frustration. Your members
think they are in a private conversation and don't realize that you've
dropped a Public Address microphone down into their huddle! And we don't
realize that we are getting into the middle of a conversation until we check
the headers and see that the post is coming from a private forum. :>(

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 0908 in Win7 x64 6801)

 

[Øyvind Granberg]

nope..
Sorry, but that's not working either.....

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[DDW]

Solutions like reinstall or system restore are not first choice. May be not
even final choices...

You DO understand that System Restore doesn't mess anything up. Are
you confusing that with "system recovery"?

DDW

 

[Øyvind Granberg]

Been there, done that, still no fix... :-(

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[Øyvind Granberg]

Hi, Shawn....

Thank you for straightening up the thread...

No, unfortunately, still no solution.


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[Øyvind Granberg]

I do understand that, but I have disabled system restore...

In the early days of system restore one could lose installed software and so
forth, yes even downloaded files.
No more...
Never used it and never will...

There has to be a solution besides taken one or more steps back...

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[DDW]

I do understand that, but I have disabled system restore...

In the early days of system restore one could lose installed software and so
forth, yes even downloaded files.
No more...
Never used it and never will...

Your loss.

There has to be a solution besides taken one or more steps back...

I suppose you have a good reason why restoring from a good working
backup is impossible too, huh?

Sometimes taking a step back is the only way to get out of the maze. I
do believe you're in that position right now, but you've not allowed
yourself a way out.

DDW

 

[Øyvind Granberg]

Hehe come on...
There is something wrong with my Windows.
If I should retract to a former system restore point every time there is
trouble, I'll never get ahead with a OS that frequently hickups.

I'll find a soluion. Somewhere...
Personally I think it is a user permission issue.
How? I don't have a clue!
Where ot look? I don't know that either...

But I believe that with a good heart and big blue eyes, a man can acheive
his goals in due time...

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Øyvind Granberg

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