Shortcuts in any operating system have to use all the time. This is no secret to anyone. However, novice users, performing some actions, sometimes make mistakes when working with a shortcut. How to fix several typical situations, then we will try to figure it out. You should immediately pay attention to the fact that even when deleting shortcuts with the system or applications for which they were created, nothing catastrophic will happen, since they only serve as a pointer to the location of the desired file to quickly start the program, open a document, a network resource or links to a page on the Internet.
Typical mistakes when working with shortcuts
Before we make any specific decisions in troubleshooting or fixing problems with labels, let's understand what,in fact, there may be errors of users who try to perform some actions with them.
The most common situation is when you click on the application icon, but the program does not start, and the system reports that the file being linked to has been deleted or moved. No less often you can find situations when the label changes its appearance, and the icon becomes white (or transparent). This indicates that the application or files were removed incorrectly (and together with the icon file), but the shortcut with a link to it remained. This can often be seen in cases where the program was uninstalled manually, and the shortcut was pinned, for example, to the Taskbar.
Finally, the most unpleasant situation is observed with shortcuts, presented in the form of browser icons and links to certain web resources, when it is not the start page or the site specified in the link that opens, but some kind of advertising resource, an incomprehensible search engine, all kinds casinos or sites of questionable content.
These are, in general terms, the main mistakes when working with labels. How to fix each of the situations presented, then we will try to figure it out. Let's start with the simplest.
How to open the properties of a shortcut and check the reference to an object?
First of all, let's assume that the file referred to by the shortcut was indeed deleted by the user or moved to another location. When you click on the icon, but the system does not find the specified object, a window immediately appears in which it is proposedspecify the path to the file yourself. How to fix the error when working with the shortcut in this case? Just through the browser, find the very file to which the link is written in the shortcut, then click the "OK" button.
You can do it differently. Call the shortcut properties using the corresponding item in the RMB menu on the program icon, and then on the shortcut tab, look at the object type field. Here you need to either enter the path to the desired file manually, or copy it from the address bar of the "Explorer" in the form of text, then paste it into the appropriate block and save the changes.
How to create a shortcut on the "Desktop" instead of remote?
In general, as practice shows, very often it is advisable to apply a simpler solution. To get started, you can simply remove a non-working shortcut or link from the "Desktop" or from the "Taskbar" (in the tenth version of Windows, the unpin item is used for this).
After that, find in the "Explorer" the directory with the desired application start file, and then right click on the "Submit …" item, then from the additional menu select the "Desktop (create shortcut)" item. The icon image will be attached automatically.
You can just as easily create a shortcut directly in the workspace (or in the file manager), using the RMB menu for this, and then specify the location of the requiredobject on disk or an address on the Internet.
How to display a shortcut on the "Desktop", figured it out. But what if the icon has changed its appearance?
To do this, in the properties of the shortcut, you can use the icon change button and select any other image from the standard set or from what can be offered for the application you are looking for. Typically, these image files are in the.ico format and are located in the root directory where the programs are installed.
Some features of viral impact on browser shortcuts
Finally, let's see how to fix an error when working with a shortcut if you are faced with an infection of your computer with all kinds of virus adware applets. We do not take into account their removal or neutralization now, since this is a separate topic for conversation. Let us draw your attention to the fact that almost all known viruses of this type create postscripts in the form of links in the fields of the browser label object type, which can cause redirects to dubious sites on the Internet even after the virus body has been deleted. Open the shortcut properties of the browser you are using, and then look in the object field for the end of the line with the address of the browser executable file.
After its name with the EXE extension there should be absolutely nothing. If you find something there, just delete the postscript and save the changes.
Note: for most known browsers, the final file name will contain the titleEXE browser, but Opera browser will list Launcher.exe.
