Thursday, July 20, 2006

How To: Restore broken shortcuts

I'm starting a series of How to topics which I hope you will find useful. Your contribution is most welcome or you may even email me problems that you came across and I'll help you fix it.

Let’s say that you’ve installed a software on your SD card and it’s been working fine until the day you removed the card to use your Wifi card. After that your programs just stopped working as before because of a “Could not locate path” problem. Not even a soft reset would fix it.

Believe it or not, it’s very simple to fix. Just open File Explorer and navigate to where you installed the program. Click on it and hold then select Copy from the menu. Then go to Windows\Start Menu\Programs\, Tap in an empty space and select Paste Shortcut from the menu. If you receive a message warning you that the file already exists and if you want to replace it, just click OK. Then go to Start > Programs > your software, tap and it should work.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

So, what was changed - or happened in/to the .lnk file ?

Linley Meslier said...

I'm not sure but I know a case where someone installed a driver for his wifi card. After he removed the card and put back his SD, it wouldn't run any software. I'm still trying to figure out how this happened.

Linley Meslier said...

Maybe the .lnk files simply did not reattached to the .exe. THey are not smart enough...