No! No! No! What-ever you do, do not start messing about with your permissions on your system. They are assigned the way they are assigned for a reason. They are put there for your security. You definitely do not want to run as an administrator either, windows will prompt you when administrator privileges are required and User Account Control will definitely protect you. your first idea is good. If it is not broken. Do not fix it as for your second problem programs such as Internet Explorer do not have permissions to access the desktop and therefore they cannot send shortcuts to the desktop nor do you want them to this is to protect you against malware and other things that could be used to access your file system through these means. This is normal behavior and every Windows box will exhibit the same behavior. I just tested it myself on three separate boxes and can confirm that this is normal behavior so this is not strange or odd behavior either. It is the way things are supposed to be
-----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+jgrimsby=roadrunner....@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Larry Higgins via Talk Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 4:01 AM To: Rod Hutton; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' Subject: Re: A weird one Hello Rob, and thanks for your suggestion. With the exception of putting a shortcut for my favorites folder on the desktop, I did what you suggested by using the send too option for the favorites folder entry. I do use this method quite often when wanting to make desktop shortcuts, and would have done so in this instance immediately if I hadn't been rather obsessed with the weirdness in the favorites menu in IE. I just can't figure out what might be causing this behavior, and especially its theoretical explanation Courtesy of Windows. I've never had that happen for as long as I've been a 'puter user, and that's been a long time. Someone mentioned the possibility of faulty permissions, but I dunno. Since I am the only user of this PC, then I guess I should make all permissions wide open, and I wouldn't have to put up with the nagging every time I want to perform a simple function such as deleting a file, or installing a program. OK, I know, installing apps or programs is a pretty serious consideration, but again, it's just me after all. But even after all these years, I'm still Leary of messing too much with permissions, as strange as that might seem. Kind of along the lines of if it aint broke don't fix it. On the whole though, I think I like your suggestions for creating favorites shortcuts rather than using the send too option in IE's favorites menu. But still, this function shouldn't return a response like that one. I'm still somewhat baffled. Anyway, I really appreciate your help. Thanks, Larry On 5/16/2015 10:21 PM, Rod Hutton wrote: > Hi Larry, > > May I suggest you go to your user folder, the icon for which is > probably on your desktop. > Once this folder opens, press the letter F to highlight the Favorites > folder. > Then, press the Applications key or Shift-F10, arrow down to Send to, > press Enter to expand this, and arrow down to Desktop (Create > shortcut), and press Enter again. > Close your user folder since you're done using it. > Now you'll have a Favorites icon on your desktop. > Now, when you want to copy an icon to your desktop, click the > Favorites icon on your desktop, which will open the Favorites folder, > which contains all your link shortcuts. > >From here, you should be able to use normal copy and paste keystrokes > >to > copy any of your link shortcuts to your desktop. > I figure you should be able to also use Send to as well to send a > shortcut to your desktop, but, because of the problem you've had, > perhaps not, but you could try it. > Note that this method of locating link shortcuts is easier to work > with since you can sort them as you do any files in a typical explorer view. > > Hth, > > Rod > > -----Original Message----- > From: Talk > [mailto:talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail....@lists.window-eyes.com] On > Behalf Of Larry Higgins via Talk > Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 9:29 PM > To: Christopher-Mark Gilland; Window-Eyes Discussion List > Subject: Re: A weird one > > Well Christopher, what to do? > > On 5/16/2015 8:02 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: >> Hmm, bad disk permissions? >> >> Chris. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Higgins via Talk" >> <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> >> To: "Window-Eyes Discussion List" <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> >> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 6:23 AM >> Subject: A weird one >> >> >>> Hello again listers, >>> >>> This one is just too strange. When I go to send a shortcut to the >>> desktop, from my favorites list in IE I get a dialog box with the >>> following message "Windows could not create the shortcut. Check to >>> see if the disk is full." This is next to impossible to understand, >>> especially with a 1tb drive with somewhere around 900gb available >>> for populating. Lots of real estate. So, what could be happening here? >>> >>> I just tried copying a 230mb file to the desktop, and no problem at all. >>> >>> All I am trying to do is make a shortcut on my desktop to the BARD >>> site so I wont have to go to favorites or even open up the browser >>> to my home page to do so. Nothing big really <smile>. Anyway, any ideas? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Larry >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of >>> the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. >>> >>> For membership options, visit >>> > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/clgillan > d07%40 > gmail.com. >>> For subscription options, visit >>> http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >>> List archives can be found at >>> http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >> > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the > author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/rod_hutt > on%40h > otmail.com. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > > _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. 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