valid or too long.
Specify a different file name.
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OK
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MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In Steve Hawkins <steve.a.hawkins@ntl(nospam)world.com> hunted and pecked:
Right, now first off, thanks very much for the info Wesley: I hadn't
looked into the names as being separate from addresses thing before:
thought it was all part of the same string.
You didn't actually say why the shortcut fit on the desktop (I don't
have
it web active as that ruins all the icons) but not in an ordinary
folder,
but that is not really the important thing.
I notice however, that I have missed your original reply, so I'm
probably
not downloading often enough, but what is more worrying is to see that
my
message headers now have " hunted and pecked:" added, which was
nothing to do with me!
I hope I am not being got at!
Cheers,
S
Shouldn't that be Hits of the 30's and 40's for your era?
Hey!
I thought that renaming the shortcut to Steve was a nice touch. :-D
The reason that I have that link is I heard a song the other day on
KOOL
105
about Bill Gates and the devil. It goes to the tune of The Devil Went
Down
to Georgia. I was waiting for them to post a link to the mp3. They
posted
a link but it's upgefucht. I hope they fix the link, the song is
funny.
;-)
"To go along with the release of the new Windows Vista, here's a song
that explains how Bill Gates makes all his money."
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MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In Rock <
[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
You can rename the link without affecting the URL.
The URL is Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
An address that uniquely identifies a location on the Internet. A
URL for
a
World Wide Web site is preceded with
http://, as in this URL
http://www.microsoft.com A URL can contain more detail, such as the
name
of
a page of hypertext, usually identified by the file name extension
.html or
.htm.
Right click a link (Internet Shortcut) and click Properties.
On the General tab, in the box at the top change the name to
whatever you
like.
The box specifies the name and provides a space for you to type a
new name.
Now click on the Web Document tab.
As long as you do NOT change the URL, the shortcut will open
whatever address is in the URL box no matter what name it has.
The Internet Shortcut file name can be anything.
For example.
Right now I have an Internet Shortcut to this...
KOOL 105 Mile High Hits of the 60s and 70s - The Way Kool Morning
Show that is the file name or Internet Shortcut name.
This is the address or URL...
http://kool105.com/pages/70747.php
I just changed the file name to Steve and double clicking the Steve
shortcut
still opens
http://kool105.com/pages/70747.php
Internet Shortcuts have the file extension .url, but you never see
that extension because it's Hidden. There is a registry setting for
InternetShortcut called NeverShowExt that is set to not show the
.url extension.
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MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In Steve Hawkins <steve.a.hawkins@ntl(nospam)world.com> hunted and
pecked:
Only just come across this curiosity:
Why is it that a web link that is sent as shortcut to Desktop
(which appears like any other folder in my folder tree), gets
rejected as 'too long please rename', when I try to move it into
another folder? Obviously, one does not want to rename a link as
it would then stop working!
Shouldn't that be Hits of the 30's and 40's for your era?
