Solved Restore shortcut?

Having changed the menu entry "Pictures" to point at a folder on a non-"C" drive,after restart the shortcut points to nothing and refuses to re-assign.
This also leads to an error when installing Google Earth and the install failing.

Any ideas please?

Using Vista Home Premium 64

Hello Pilgrim3, welcome to Vista Forums!



There's always the option to start over again by doing a system restore to a point before you made the changes to see if that will make things right, have a look at the tutorial at the link below; be sure to post back to keep us informed.


How to Do a System Restore in Vista

Unfortunatly that,when I tried it some days ago,had no effect.
Thanks though.

Two possible remedies

One make a new short cut

Two Type picture in search, when it comes up, right click propeties. Find out the location and then change it in the shortcut (target)

Let us know.

Good idea.
Didn't work but.
The <Apply> button remains grayed out and the change doesn't take.

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-file-management/133591-some-shortcuts-dont-work.html

Read this thread, and make the shortcut the way explained.

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-file-management/133591-some-shortcuts-dont-work.html

Menu target

I keep my Pictures on a non-C drive.
I tried to change the target of the Pictures tab on the right side of the start menu to
E:Pictures.
After a restart the target line is blank and apply is grayed out.
As a result programs which access Pictures,e.g. Google Earth,don't work.
How,please, can I fix this?

No,still no result.
I might have to reinstall.

If I understand correctly you made the original change to the Pictures shortcut in the Start menu?

This hasn't been specifically mentioned, have you tried:

Right-click Pictures shortcut > Properties > Location tab > Restore Default?

There is no location tab,only a simple properties window.
I've also tried going to the menu properties and restoring default but still no result.

Hello Pilgrim,

If this is for your Pictures user folder, then see if using OPTION THREE in the tutorial below may be able to help restore it back to it's default location.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/148461-personal-user-folder-restore-missing-folder.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thank you Shawn,
That worked perfectly restoring the menu tab to C:\Users\Pilgrim.
Now I'll try using the Location>Find Target to point it at the correct folder.

And that worked too.
I owe you a scone.

You're most welcome Pilgrim. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted.