Vista - Cannot make a shortcut...

Hi...

I cannot make a shortcut anywhere in any folder on my computer.
Windows Vista Ulitmate
AVG 8
No firewall
Running as a user with admin rights...

Right clicking in a folder and choose "New shortcut" yields no reactions at
all!!!

What is wrong?

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Vennlig hilsen
Øyvind Granberg

tresfjording@xxxxxx
www.tresfjording.com

This tutorial may help:

New Shortcut Fix

"LeeTutor" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:e47bff2991a4d4ea2d3c2c95d632059b@xxxxxx-gateway.com...I would if you'd quoted the post you are replying to.

The "forum" that you are posting in leaches off the Microsoft News servers
in order to make it look far busier than it really is. Everyone who uses the
MS News servers sees your post on it's own - we have NO IDEA what you are
talking about and to whom you are talking.

If you MUST continue to post in this "forum" then please at least quote the
post you are replying to.
You would be far better off however, using a news reader and subscribing to
these news groups direct.

Setting up Outlook Express/Windows Mail to access Microsoft newsgroups
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/ou...snewreader.htm

Accessing the MS newsgroups in Outlook Express/Windows Mail Newsreader
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...roupsetup.mspx


Thank you

To Gordon:

>Everyone who uses the
MS News servers sees your post on it's own - we have NO IDEA what you are
talking about and to whom you are talking.

Which is precisely why I don't want to post in the news server. This forum organizes it all in a nice thread. Besides, the signature I put on my messages is meant for primarily the questioner to add to my reputation. Since the question appears in the forum, it is possible to do so...

"LeeTutor" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:baf0407ee6e20eb202cf3c6611bf08a9@xxxxxx-gateway.com...But you need to understand, that because Vistax64 forums LEACH off the MS
newsgroups, WE, the users of the MS Newsgroups get fed up with seeing
orphaned posts from yours and many other, forums that do this. Please would
you email the owners to tell them to get people to follow Usenet etiquette
if their forum is going to continue to LEACH off the MS news servers...

Didn't work ... :-((

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Vennlig hilsen
Øyvind Granberg

tresfjording@xxxxxx
www.tresfjording.com

"LeeTutor" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> skrev i nyhetsmeldingen:
e47bff2991a4d4ea2d3c2c95d632059b@xxxxxx-gateway.com ...

Hi, Gordon.

AMEN!!

It's amazing (and depressing) to me that LeeTutor doesn't understand what
you are saying. :>(

Why don't "forum" organizers keep THEIR posts in THEIR forum? Because, as
you said, they LEACH from the MS public news server to make their own forum
look (a) busier and (b) more expert than it really is. The worst of those
forums don't even tell their "members" that the help they receive is coming
from OUTSIDE their forum.

It seems to me that almost every OP (original post) that I've read here in
this Microsoft public newsgroup this morning has originated on some forum or
another and been relayed here - probably with no notice to the poster. That
poster has "joined" that forum and has typed in his/her secret password to
read messages there, so he/she probably has an expectation of at least SOME
PRIVACY. And, without even telling the poster, the forum manager has
relayed the question to the Usenet and to this Microsoft news server, so
that the poster's questions and comments are posted openly to news servers
all over the world. And then the poster wonders how perfect (or imperfect)
strangers seem to know about his/her supposedly private conversations that
were posted only on a "private" forum. :>(

I am often surprised to see MY posts in forums where I've never posted at
all. While I'm happy that my wonderful advice is being disseminated far and
wide to users who might benefit from it, I'm dismayed that follow-up
questions or other responses will probably never come to my attention. And
those forum operators will claim the credit for helping, credit that rightly
belongs to the Microsoft public news server for providing the link between
user and helper.

Oh, well. Enough preaching. I'm off my soapbox for now.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@xxxxxx
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 0908 in Win7 x64 6801)

"Gordon" <gordonbparker@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ea3MFk9UJHA.5540@xxxxxx

Have you all forgotten my request?!?

I have googled around a little, and found out that this is really not a
detached problem. Many others have it too.
But still I can't find a solution...

Solutions like reinstall or system restore are not first choice. May be not
even final choices...
It's like after a tire blows up on your car, you go and get a new car
instead of fixing the tire....

Is this a user account issue, may be?

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Vennlig hilsen
Øyvind Granberg

tresfjording@xxxxxx
www.tresfjording.com

"Øyvind Granberg" <tresfjording@xxxxxx> skrev i nyhetsmeldingen:
021522B5-67F2-44B3-9E22-D94B5761DA38@xxxxxx ...

Hello Øyvind,

See if clicking on the "lnk" item in the box at this link to download and merge the REG file can help fix your problem for you. It restores the default shortcut associations in Vista.

http://www.winhelponline.com/article...ows-Vista.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Hello Gordon and R.C. White,

I resent the statement that we Vistax64 "leach" off the MS newsgroups. I cannot speak for all forums, but our forum tries to help "Contribute" to these MS newsgroups and make it better, not "Leach". The trolls and little children in the MS newsgroups is why most people use forums instead since their posts get filtered out. It makes reading the MS newsgroups enjoyable again instead of wading through all their junk posts.

However, I agree that our members need to follow usenet etiquette better, like quoting posts when they reply in these MS newsgroups. We will certainely try to keep our members better informed of this.

Instead of bashing and putting down people, perhaps you should teach them instead by reminding them of the proper usenet etiquette. There are folks out there that are new to this and do not understand this despite knowing that these are part of the MS newsgroups instead of the forum itself.

Regards,
Shawn