God Windows is crud - Can't even create a shortcut...

malachi said:
I had the same problem before and it wasnt anything to do with Windows but it was Steam. I solved the problem uninstalling Steam,deleting everything apart from my games from the Steam folder, reinstalled and the shortcut problem was gone.
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You're telling me Steam affects the target line for the properties of a shortcut? Nah! :rolleyes:
 
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question for OP: do you have "hide extensions for known file types" enabled? I always turn that off, it leads to all sorts of problems if I don't.
 
I know I'm on Win7 64Bit but I just right click on the folder and click send to desktop "Short Cut" and it creates a short cut to the folder.

Is this just an issue in Vista 64Bit then?
 
It's not just a bug in Vista, you can reproduce it in Windows 7 x86 7 x64:

Create a folder C:\test and put a test.exe file into the C:\test folder, create another folder C:\test\test, and when you type C:\test\test into "target" it'll change to c:\test\test.exe, if you put "C:\test\test." into the target it links to the folder though.
 
NeilFawcett said:
No you can't... Any attempt to change the properties/target to the folder "D:\Steam\SteamApps\common\left 4 dead 2\left4dead2\" will fail. Windows will decide it knows better and change it to the application "D:\Steam\SteamApps\common\left 4 dead 2\left4dead2.exe".
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Works absolutely fine here... make the shortcut - then edit it to remove the \filename.exe - and it doesn't change itself back - dunno what you've messed up.
 
you have to use an extra period.

"c:\<user>\desktop\test\test."

the extra period fixes your problem.

[edit: paulm beat me to it :p

I tried "\test\test\." which didn't work (. is current directory, .. is parent directory), but it's not a fix which would be obvious to anyone who didn't mess around with command line once in a while.

"\test\test." doesn't mean anything that I know of, so why it works in anyone's guess. Just a peculiarity in the UI?]
 
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PaulM said:
It's not just a bug in Vista, you can reproduce it in Windows 7 x86 7 x64:

Create a folder C:\test and put a test.exe file into the C:\test folder, create another folder C:\test\test, and when you type C:\test\test into "target" it'll change to c:\test\test.exe, if you put "C:\test\test." into the target it links to the folder though.
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Wow, the "C:\test\test." bit is super odd!
 
Burnsy2023 said:
I couldn't reproduce the issue in 7 x64.
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you're doing it wrong... no, wait, you're doing it right :p

I have 7 64 and I get the same result as OP. to set it up:

"desktop/test/" folder
"desktop/test/test.exe" file
"desktop/test/test/" folder

right-click on desktop, create new shortcut.
navigate to "desktop/test/test/" folder and click OK.
watch as windows makes a shortcut to desktop/test/test.exe instead!
 
FoxEye said:
you're doing it wrong... no, wait, you're doing it right :p

I have 7 64 and I get the same result as OP. to set it up:

"desktop/test/" folder
"desktop/test/test.exe" file
"desktop/test/test/" folder

right-click on desktop, create new shortcut.
navigate to "desktop/test/test/" folder and click OK.
watch as windows makes a shortcut to desktop/test/test.exe instead!
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LOL!
 
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