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05-28-2008

"Gary Fritz" wrote:

Quote:

> I did some digging and found some situations that sound similar to my
> problem, but none covered the same issue I'm seeing.
>
> I've been running Vista for several months now. At some time in the last
> week or two, many of my Start Menu shortcuts have stopped working. If I
> look at the properties of those shortcuts, it seems to be the ones that
> don't have an actual path in the Target field. E.g. Word has "Microsoft
> Office Professional Edition 2003" instead of an actual path to WINWORD.EXE,
> and that shortcut doesn't work. Nothing happens when you select it.
> However the shortcut to Notepad has "%SystemRoot%\system32\notepad.exe" in
> its Target field, and it works just fine.
>
> This only happens with SOME of the shortcuts. E.g. the "recently used"
> list of shortcuts in the Start menu does this, and if I type WinKey-WORD
> and select the Microsoft Word shortcut that shows up there, it doesn't
> work. But if I select the Word shortcut under Start -> All Programs ->
> Microsoft Office, it works just fine -- even though it also has the non-
> path Target field.
>
> What has happened to these "special" shortcuts? How do I fix it and
> prevent this from happening again?
>
> Gary
>

05-28-2008	#2 (permalink)
Marcie n/a posts	RE: Some Start Menu shortcuts not working "Gary Fritz" wrote: Quote: > I did some digging and found some situations that sound similar to my > problem, but none covered the same issue I'm seeing. > > I've been running Vista for several months now. At some time in the last > week or two, many of my Start Menu shortcuts have stopped working. If I > look at the properties of those shortcuts, it seems to be the ones that > don't have an actual path in the Target field. E.g. Word has "Microsoft > Office Professional Edition 2003" instead of an actual path to WINWORD.EXE, > and that shortcut doesn't work. Nothing happens when you select it. > However the shortcut to Notepad has "%SystemRoot%\system32\notepad.exe" in > its Target field, and it works just fine. > > This only happens with SOME of the shortcuts. E.g. the "recently used" > list of shortcuts in the Start menu does this, and if I type WinKey-WORD > and select the Microsoft Word shortcut that shows up there, it doesn't > work. But if I select the Word shortcut under Start -> All Programs -> > Microsoft Office, it works just fine -- even though it also has the non- > path Target field. > > What has happened to these "special" shortcuts? How do I fix it and > prevent this from happening again? > > Gary >
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