desktop shortcuts do not work

[Brenda]

All of a sudden, none of my desktop shortcuts work. Also, I am unable to
click on a link from an email to get to the
internet . I need to cut & paste . Any suggestions would be appreciated.
It's a real pain. Thanks so much.

 

[Trent©]

All of a sudden, none of my desktop shortcuts work. Also, I am unable to
click on a link from an email to get to the
internet . I need to cut & paste . Any suggestions would be appreciated.
It's a real pain. Thanks so much.

Explain 'unable'.

Install anything lately?


Have a nice one...

Trent

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[Ramesh [MVP]]

Without knowing more information (error message etc?)

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


All of a sudden, none of my desktop shortcuts work. Also, I am unable to
click on a link from an email to get to the
internet . I need to cut & paste . Any suggestions would be appreciated.
It's a real pain. Thanks so much.

 

[Guest]

The same happens for me. Suddenly the shortcut to the file of games we had
on the desktop can't open because "the drive or network connection is
unavailable". And a word document email attachment couldn't open because it
said to make a new file association.

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Perhaps the game shortcut is pointing to an executable in the CD-ROM drive? Or, the games requires the original game CD-ROM in. For the Word document issue, see if the .doc file association is correctly set. Office has a 'Detect and Repair' option which should fix most of the problems of this sort.

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


The same happens for me. Suddenly the shortcut to the file of games we had
on the desktop can't open because "the drive or network connection is
unavailable". And a word document email attachment couldn't open because it
said to make a new file association.

 

[Guest]

Sorry, should have been more specific. These are just games that are on the
desktop, no CD required.

Thanks you!