Some of my Desktop shortcuts - including A4A & my Bank - suddenly don't!
I get this on the display.
Had it once before but it righted itself.
I have tried restarting & recreating the link.
Tim, do you get a diagonal, double ended cursor if you hover over the bottom right hand side of the 'window'?
I haven't seen this before, but sometimes I have had windows open already minimised to the smallest setting and it was because I'd altered the minimised screen size before closing the window.
What do you mean exactly by 'shortcuts,' Tim? Are these keyboard config's?
SDuzi - no.
Ken - these thingies!
Strangely, after much toing & froing, it is only the A4A liink which won't open....??
Ah! The icon shortcuts on your desktop.
If all the others are working now, could it be you're still trying tp open A4A via the old link and not the new one?
Either way, I'd dump it and create a new shortcut to the new A4A frontpage.
I just did a test. Dumped my old short-cut. Right click on A4A logo on A4A. Chose 'copy shortcut'- right clicked on that page, chose create shortcut and it placed the new A4A icon on my desktop. It opened no problem.
Ken - have tried all day but it still won't link.
B****y infuriating!!
How about a simple system restore to a couple of days back?
Simple? Sounds frightening to the likes of me??
Hey Tim, system restore isn't hard, even I can do it honestly. I am going to let someone else explain how as they will do it better than I can do but it is simple, you can take your computer settings back to yesterday or last week or whatever.
This is the routle through your computer.
Start
All Programs
Accessories
System Tools
System Restore
Click on it and it will walk you through it
XX Jeannine
Well - while you were typing that, I let the blind lead the blind, held my nose & jumped off the bridge.
Back to 14 June. Clever stuff??
But it hasn't solved the problem........................***
Just found it and up dated
Doesn't just right clicking while you are on the site create a desktop shortcut for you?
Indeed - but it doesn't open the link.
Sorry to be a bore!!
Oh Tim, I am sorry, that is far as my thinking goes, XX Jeannine
Dump any 'old' A4A icons before loading a new one.
I DO, I DO!!
Tim,
what happens if you click on the maximise button? does it open the link?
In the 3 seconds that the bar displays, it's difficult to catch the maximise, but no - it momentarily flashes across the display,, as if trying to open, then disappears. Just before it does so, the M changes to an h......??
All very frustrating!
Tim,
Are you still getting this problem. If you are I'll try to write [ what I think are ] the instructions to get you out of this.
SnooziSuzi is on the right track. Can you drag your very small window around the screen ??
I have to leave work now - laters.
Dammit - I would have loved to try your idea but, as you can see from my next post, I have it working.
However, I've printed off your lead for when it re-occurs.
Thanks.
Riffster - hope you had a good day at work?
Back to the brick wall - Daughter now has the same problem in trying to establish a shortcur for Photobucket. The ion is there but it jsut gets the stupid little box at the top.
Works fine on my side.
She has her own account which I just opened for her.
Bottle of Champagne for the best answer!!
Too many icons on your desktop can eventually slow down your PC whens its starting up(or so Ive been told)
I just have this site and photobucket etc on my favourites.
Can well believe that - but this is a new problem with the same icon display.
Disappeared after a while on my account but is now plagueing Daughter.
I always put links into the "Bookmarks" on Firefox. I also got to the stage where I had too many icons on screen so I made a new folder called "Tidy Screen" and put the ones which I do not use so much in there.
Tim, I have written a doc for you. Just going to find somewhere to upload it to now. Watch this space in 10 mins.
Riffster.
Tim,
Here is a "quick" word doc containing the instructions - hope it helps.
http://www.gagging.to/Move-Size.doc (http://www.gagging.to/Move-Size.doc)
regards
Riffster
Well, I may not be going down the right track but we're getting somewhere.
1. Yes - the icon is similar.
2. No- I don't recognise such tabs.
3. BUT - I finally stopped the icon in its tracks by clicking on the e rather than elsewhere.
The M changed through h (http?) to i (first letter of the photobucket account name?)
Since the icon is now fixed, I exited the 'option box'
4. If I now click on the i, I go into a whole page, headed with the account name & with the correct URL address, but no content.
5. If I click GO on the address, it takes me straight to the account.
So, curiouser & curiouser? A rather lengthy way to get there!!
Any advance??
= Tim
Tim,
I'm sure that you do not want to hear this, but just in case you want to cut your losses .. I do not use shortcuts at all.
Instead, I have my own home page which comes up whenever I go into the browser (Internet Explorer in my case). It contains links to all the sites that I use regularly. You simply click on the desired link. The page is set up using Microsoft Word (I am sure that other word processing systems will do similar). It is a fairly straightforward process. I have recently written a quick guide for a friend which I could let you have if you are interested.
Would love to give it a go, Bak - although I'm hooked on the simplicity of icons, & the stupid photobucket site can always be reached via Favourites. It just erks me that its shortcut doesn't work.
Remember my mental age in matters eletronic!!
Tim,
I am out mostly tomorrow (Tues) but will try to get something to you on Wed. If you can PM me details of a handful of sites (say 4) that you want to access, including their URLs I could produce a skeleton home page for you to go with the guide. Let me have your email address so that I can get the stuff to you.
Bak - truly grateful to you - & Riffster - for such careful prompting, but I think that I must take a rain check on the matter. Daughter is V conservative & doesn't want to break away from her desktop layout. She's happy to go the long way around until the machine sorts itself out like it did for me.
As I say, the thing that irks - not erks as above! - is that exactly the same process gives me a useable shortcut on my account but not on hers.
Thank you both hugely. I hope you won't be put off from helping out in the future.
= Tim
Tim,
no problem .. offer will remain open.
See pm
Thanks again = Tim
Tim,
have you checked the run setting (alias the window sizing) for IE?
Eg right-click the IE icon on the task bar (bottom left-hand corner usually) .. click on properties .. click on the shortcut tab .. the run box should be set to "normal window" .. if not then set it to normal window .. click ok.
If it was not set to normal window then you may have to recreate your shortcuts .. and there is no guarantee that your problem wont reappear - you may have some piece of software that is causing the problem or you may (inadvertently) be inducing it yourself.
Tim,
NOW, I'm not suggesting this at all.
But another cause of similar problems to this are viruses and malware.
Keep an eye out for strange other occurrences.
I don't want to worry you - but I did want to mention it to us all.
regards
Riffster
Tim,
sorry to pepper you with this .. I found this variation to what I said on the web.
"Right click the shortcut icon for IE next to the Start button, choose Properties, change it from 'normal' to 'maximized'. Now open it.
Now right click any link on the page, choose Open In New Window....don't maximize it....instead, use the mouse to resize it to what you want it to be.
Now close the FIRST window you opened, and then close the new one you just resized.
Reopen IE from the shortcut icon again, and all windows from now on will be the size you chose and created. "
Bak - noted again.
Riffster - indeed - nothing shows up on a virus search.
But now - who's playing games? ALL my shortcuts are working again........??
I waved my magic email wand and look !
You're going to ask me next if I've got a copy of HP-tdh next