Vista Tutorial - Vista Desktop Icons Randomly Change

Shawn

That is an excellent guide you linked to - and is the method for creating icons that I used to use. However - icons for shortcuts created from favourites are not stable - even if the shortcut is made read only.

The only icons on my computer that are stable are those that link to a file on my hard drive.

Walter

This is the batch file titled Vista64 Forum.bat I created with notepad

"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IExplore.exe" "http://www.vistax64.com/"

The quotation marks are essential.
The first pair enclose the route to your Iexplorer.exe file
The second pair are an exact copy of the URL address as it appears in your browser.
There must be one space between each pair.

Edit - the URL underline has been added by this forum automatically - ignore it

All my batch files are stored in a folder on my hard drive.

Thank you alanho,

Your suggestion has been added to the tutorial as Method Three.

Shawn

I found a Solution to inability to create Web shortcuts and the missing "Web
Document" tab in shortcut Properties:

After extensive search of the Interned and questioning various technicians,
finally one Microsoft tech solved the problem.

The problem (in Vista Ultimate) was that shortcuts to internet links could
not be created. No matter how a shortcut to a web link was created, it would
not work. Shortcuts created by any of the many possible ways to create a web
link on the desktop, etc., all did not work. And they all were missing the
"Web Document" tab in Properties.

A Microsoft tech name Richi said to open MS Internet Explorer, go to Tools
(bring up the Menu Bar by right clicking on the area above the web page if
necessary), Internet Options, click on the Advanced tab, and then at the
bottom right, click on Reset... and then Reset. This will reset Internet
Explorer settings to:
Disable browser add-ons.
Delete browser history.
Reset user customizations.
Apply Manufacturers settings.
Then click on Close and OK

Close and reopen MSIE and if this has worked, now the web linked shortcuts
should all now have an icon with a larger logo of E (for IE) and their
Properties should show a "Web Documents" tab.

So now, dragging and dropping web links, creating new shortcuts, etc. all
should work.

Walter

Hi Walter,

That seems a bit drastic to do, but I suppose if it works for you. Have you tried the methods here to see if they will work for you?

Internet Shortcut

Shawn

I ran System Mechanic 7 and the icons are no longer moving and window size
appears to the size at which I closed it...good luck!

"AlanHo" wrote:

I have the same problem with randomly changing desk top icons for my
internet shortcuts on my Vista Home Premium using IE 8.

Here is my take. Even though I was curious if others have had a
similar problem and if there was a simple fix put forward by a
responsive Microsoft. Apparently Microsoft is either oblivious or
doesn't care. But I am not curious enough to spend much time to
initiate a "fix" that may or may not work or which will only degrade the
convenience of immediate desk-top access to icons.

I will simply consider this "bug" to be something that Microsoft should
fix - and they haven't. So the next consequence is to think that much
less of Microsoft reliability - like their abandonoment of their Money
program.

I will live with the randomly changing icon bug. I just hope nothing
else within Microsoft programs is "randomly changing."

That is one additional reason why I will avoid web based programs, i.e.
the software industry's move to Web-based "solutions." It is way too
much of a "black box" the user has little control over.


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