Lost ability to "Find Target" under Properties

[DaViD]

I lost some time back the ability to "Find Target" under Properties of
shortcuts on my desktop, i.e. nothing happened when the button was clicked.
I installed SP2 RC2 and regain the "Find Target" function. But due to
program incompatibilities I removed SP2 and with it the FT facility.

Can anyone help with the name of the file I need to regain this facility
please.

TIA


DaViD


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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right
sometimes. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
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[Will Denny]

Hi David

There are News Groups specific to SP2 - you might like to try those for some
help:

http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=xpsp2&slcid=us

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please reply to the News Groups


| I lost some time back the ability to "Find Target" under Properties of
| shortcuts on my desktop, i.e. nothing happened when the button was
clicked.
| I installed SP2 RC2 and regain the "Find Target" function. But due to
| program incompatibilities I removed SP2 and with it the FT facility.
|
| Can anyone help with the name of the file I need to regain this facility
| please.
|
| TIA
|
|
| DaViD
|
|
| *************************
| The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right
| sometimes. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
| *************************
|
|
|

 

[Menno Hershberger]

But he's removed SP2 and back to his original problem before he installed
it.

 

[DaViD]

Thanks Menno,

The problem was that I lost the "Find Target" facility. But installing SP2
RC2 reinstalled it.
removing SP2 reverted my system back as it was before, so does anyone know
which block of code addresses my problem please.

Thanks

DaViD


Menno Hershberger wrote:
|| But he's removed SP2 and back to his original problem before he
|| installed it.
||
|| ||
||| Hi David
|||
||| There are News Groups specific to SP2 - you might like to try those
||| for some help:
|||
||| http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=xpsp2&slcid
||| =us
|||
||
||
||
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|| -- What happens if you get scared half to death twice? --

 

[Alex Nichol]

I lost some time back the ability to "Find Target" under Properties of
shortcuts on my desktop, i.e. nothing happened when the button was clicked.
I installed SP2 RC2 and regain the "Find Target" function. But due to
program incompatibilities I removed SP2 and with it the FT facility.

Make the following, after - - start and before - - end into a file by
cut/paste to NotePad. Don't let lines wrap around ( [HKEY through
matching ] is one line; @=" starts the next) , and make sure there is a
blank line at the end. Save as "Patch.reg" then right-click on this file
and take Merge to enter it into the registry.

- - start
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile]
@="Shortcut"
"EditFlags"=dword:00000001
"IsShortcut"=""
"NeverShowExt"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\CLSID]
@="{00021401-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\TargetContext]
@="{90A756E0-AFCF-11CE-927B-0800095AE340}"



- - end

 

[DaViD]

Thank you very much Alex for your help................

When I can summon up the strength I shall uninstall SP2 (3rd time in 2 days)
and merge your patch.

DaViD

Alex Nichol wrote:
|| DaViD wrote:
||
||| I lost some time back the ability to "Find Target" under Properties
||| of shortcuts on my desktop, i.e. nothing happened when the button
||| was clicked. I installed SP2 RC2 and regain the "Find Target"
||| function. But due to program incompatibilities I removed SP2 and
||| with it the FT facility.
||
|| Make the following, after - - start and before - - end into a file by
|| cut/paste to NotePad. Don't let lines wrap around ( [HKEY through
|| matching ] is one line; @=" starts the next) , and make sure there
|| is a blank line at the end. Save as "Patch.reg" then right-click on
|| this file and take Merge to enter it into the registry.
||
|| - - start
|| REGEDIT4
||
|| [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile]
|| @="Shortcut"
|| "EditFlags"=dword:00000001
|| "IsShortcut"=""
|| "NeverShowExt"=""
||
|| [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\CLSID]
|| @="{00021401-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"
||
|| [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers]
||
|| [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\TargetContext]
|| @="{90A756E0-AFCF-11CE-927B-0800095AE340}"
||
||
||
|| - - end
||
|| --
|| Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
|| Bournemouth, U.K. (e-mail address removed)8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)