Vista Tutorial - Quick Launch

Frank,

I attached my desktop.ini here in a ZIP file. Download to your desktop, unzip it, and copy the desktop.ini into that location and do a restart to see if it helps your Quick Launch.

You can view it's contents by opening the desktop.ini file in Notepad.

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Shawn

Shawn,

Thanks for that bonus effort there. No luck, though. Everything is still the same.

The thing that baffles me the most is that the same icons work if I unlock the toolbar and make all my QL icons visible.

Let me know if you come up with any other ideas. I'll keep searching and post if I find anything.

Again, thanks,

Frank

Ok Frank,

Sorry it did not work. I'm stumped and scratching my head to. Please do post if you find anything.

Shawn

So, here's the solution. It's a bit painful, but it seems to work:

1) Go to the Quick Launch root folder (probably "C:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch")
2) Right click in the field, go to New, click Shortcut
3) Browse for the location of the file (example: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\POWERPNT.EXE")
4) Click next
5) Type name for your shortcut (example: "Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007")
6) Click Finish.

Your shortcut is added and is that simple. It has full functionality.

The only real difference this seems to make is in the "Target" part of Properties, which is now a file instead of "Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007." That doesn't really explain why the other one doesn't work.

Feel free to use this information in a new tutorial or to share with others as needed. It should be shared so everyone can get around this weird problem.


Thanks again for all your help earlier,

Frank

Great news Frank,

I was just doing some research on this and was not finding much on this particular issue. Who would of thought that it was a "Target" issue and still work when in the first 3. I will add this to the tutorial above now in case any one else has this problem.

Thank you for the feedback.

Shawn

Hi Shawn,

Great tutorials for all.
I have a similar problem with a Skype shortcut, but I assume it might be related with the Windows Installer. Everywhere except clicking from the Quick Launch works perfectly.
Here, you can see the shortcut tab of its properties. (It's in Turkish. )

What do you think?

Hi Kgursu,

Welcome to Vista Forums.

I would delete the one in Quick Launch, then go the EXE (application) file for Skye in Program Files and right click on it and click Send To and Desktop (Create Shortcut). Next, rename it to what you want and move that new shortcut into Quick Launch. That one should work now.

Quick Launch

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks, it worked as you suggested!...

But, what might be the source of the problem? Shall I report this to Skype or to MS, maybe?

Your welcome Kgursu. I'm glad to hear that it worked for you. This could of happened if say the file the Quick Launch shortcut was made from was deleted or moved causing the Quick Launch shortcut to still only being pointed to the old location when it is no longer there now.

Shawn

HI I had the some problem that the quick launch would not work at all. I fixed this by doing the following.

1. Make a new user account
2. open the c:\users\(the new account)\appdata\roaming\microsoft\internet explorer
3. copy the quick launch folder to your main account
4. log off
5. log in with your main account.
6. and the quick launch should be their.

this worked of me the only pain is that you have to re-pin the programs to the quick launch