Shortcut Mysteriously Stopped Working . . .

[Guest]

I have a shortcut on my taskbar to Norton Antivirus Update website

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/download/pages/US-N95.html <

that stopped working today. It's been working now for a year or two, up
until now.

I have the exact same shortcut in my Internet Explorer Favorites and it does
work.

What could be making this particular shortcut not work?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have a shortcut on my taskbar to Norton Antivirus Update website
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that stopped working today. It's been working now for a year or two, up
until now.

I have the exact same shortcut in my Internet Explorer Favorites and it does
work.

What could be making this particular shortcut not work?

A much more robust way would be to precede it with the
command you wish to execute so that the whole command
line looks like this. Do NOT remove the double quotes!

"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/download/pages/US-N95.html

 

[Guest]

Pegasus, that does not work either. This is wierd.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

What happens when you run the line I gave you from a Command Prompt?

 

[Guest]

From a Command Prompt it works.

What happens when you run the line I gave you from a Command Prompt?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Now try this:
- Create the batch file c:\Test.bat
- Place these three lines inside it:
@echo off
echo %date% %time% %UserName% > c:\test.txt
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/download/pages/US-N95.html
1>>c:\test.txt 2>c:\test.err

(The last line is a very long line!)
- Create a shortcut on your desktop that invokes c:\test.bat.
- Double-click it.
- Paste the contents of c:\test.txt and c:\test.err into your reply.

 

[Z]

Now try this:
- Create the batch file c:\Test.bat
- Place these three lines inside it:

Three lines? Did you mean four lines?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

For a moment I thought that I had lost the ability to count to
three. Not so. Here are the lines again, numbered this time
for your benefit: The last line is ***very*** long.

Line1=@echo off
Line2=echo %date% %time% %UserName% > c:\test.txt
Line3="C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/download/pages/US-N95.html
1>>c:\test.txt 2>c:\test.err

 

[Guest]

Since your last post the shortcut has started working again! So no need for
further troubleshooting.

I appreciate your help.

Thank you.

Dave

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Amazing what some close scrutiny can achieve . . .

 

[Guest]

Indeed . . . .

Thank you for your indulgence.