On 06/05/2020 23:16, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
There are some icons on my desktop that are URL's. They are Internet
shortcuts rather than application shortcuts.


So that's not the problem and the original question wasn't about them.Â*
No need to waste time discussing them.


There are a few without
the heavy shortcut arrow as well. I can't remember how I created them.


Heavy shortcut arrows could mean that the link is for all users on that
machine.Â* Me thinks so anyway.Â* Try creating a user on that machine and
see if the desktop of that new, clean user,Â* has got [almost] the same
shortcuts as the ones you are calling "Heavy Shortcut".Â* These links are
placed on the public folder on that machine (generally).

C:\Users\Public\Desktop

The problem the original poster had was that he used some 3rd party tool
to install an app.Â* God knows how this is possible because on a windows
system the standard way is to click on the exe file or msi file to
install an app but some nutters will find some unusual way of doing
things without knowing the full implications of what they are doing.Â*
then the mess happens and they come here crying about it without telling
us how it all happened in the first place.





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