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I accidentally left side dragged Wordpad and Notepad to the desktop to
create shortcuts there instead of right side dragging them. I got the desktop shortcuts but lost the listing of these two programs in the add programs/accessories list. To get them back on the add programs list I tried using Windows Explorer and went to the Start menu folder/accessories sub folder and copied the desktop shortcuts and pasted them in there. They show up on the add programs list normally now. but for some reason, after closing Windows Explorer and opening it again, the two icons I pasted in there (Wordpad and Notepad) are now missing where they showed in the Windows Explorer accessories folder before. . Is there some reason for this? I'd like to understand how this process worked....getting both Wordpad and Notepad back into the add programs listing. Did I do it correctly, or have I done it incorrectly. I can't figure out why the programs were showing in Windows Explorer, and not showing up there now. Thanks much Dudley |
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message ... I accidentally left side dragged Wordpad and Notepad to the desktop to create shortcuts there instead of right side dragging them. I got the desktop shortcuts but lost the listing of these two programs in the add programs/accessories list. To get them back on the add programs list I tried using Windows Explorer and went to the Start menu folder/accessories sub folder and copied the desktop shortcuts and pasted them in there. They show up on the add programs list normally now. but for some reason, after closing Windows Explorer and opening it again, the two icons I pasted in there (Wordpad and Notepad) are now missing where they showed in the Windows Explorer accessories folder before. . Is there some reason for this? I'd like to understand how this process worked....getting both Wordpad and Notepad back into the add programs listing. Did I do it correctly, or have I done it incorrectly. I can't figure out why the programs were showing in Windows Explorer, and not showing up there now. Thanks much Dudley just put wordpad and notepad *back* in their original place... then create the shortcuts on your desktop by right clicking and selecting "create short cut" don;t know why you have tried complicating matters so much |
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On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:30:57 -0500, Dudley Henriques wrote:
I accidentally left side dragged Wordpad and Notepad to the desktop to create shortcuts there instead of right side dragging them. I got the desktop shortcuts but lost the listing of these two programs in the add programs/accessories list. To get them back on the add programs list I tried using Windows Explorer and went to the Start menu folder/accessories sub folder and copied the desktop shortcuts and pasted them in there. They show up on the add programs list normally now. but for some reason, after closing Windows Explorer and opening it again, the two icons I pasted in there (Wordpad and Notepad) are now missing where they showed in the Windows Explorer accessories folder before. . Is there some reason for this? I'd like to understand how this process worked....getting both Wordpad and Notepad back into the add programs listing. Did I do it correctly, or have I done it incorrectly. I can't figure out why the programs were showing in Windows Explorer, and not showing up there now. I've never moved my Notepad and Wordpad shortcuts. I'm finding Notepad in Documents and Settings\myaccount\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories and Wordpad is in Documents and Settings\All Users\Star Menu\Programs\Accessories. Suggest trying again using Windows Explorer or my Computer to copy/paste these shortcuts back into position. TIP: In the future when you want to duplicate or add a shortcut to the desktop, try a right click on the item. Then select Send To Desktop as a shortcut. -- Sharon F MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User |
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"philo" wrote in message ... "Dudley Henriques" wrote in message ... I accidentally left side dragged Wordpad and Notepad to the desktop to create shortcuts there instead of right side dragging them. I got the desktop shortcuts but lost the listing of these two programs in the add programs/accessories list. To get them back on the add programs list I tried using Windows Explorer and went to the Start menu folder/accessories sub folder and copied the desktop shortcuts and pasted them in there. They show up on the add programs list normally now. but for some reason, after closing Windows Explorer and opening it again, the two icons I pasted in there (Wordpad and Notepad) are now missing where they showed in the Windows Explorer accessories folder before. . Is there some reason for this? I'd like to understand how this process worked....getting both Wordpad and Notepad back into the add programs listing. Did I do it correctly, or have I done it incorrectly. I can't figure out why the programs were showing in Windows Explorer, and not showing up there now. Thanks much Dudley just put wordpad and notepad *back* in their original place... then create the shortcuts on your desktop by right clicking and selecting "create short cut" don;t know why you have tried complicating matters so much Thank you for replying. My question doesn't ask how to replace the programs in the add remove section if you read the question carefully. As I have said, I have already done that through discovering a process that might have been right or wrong. I'm posting to find out it that process was right or wrong; that's all. I'm trying to ask a deeper question if I may. If you notice, I have already replaced the programs that I accidentally took off the add programs menu .My question asks why the icons, after being replaced in Windows Explorer, don't appear any longer in the Windows Explorer folders I pasted them into to get them back into the add programs section. I'm simply trying to understand why they have disappeared from these folders. DH |
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Thank you. I've done that. The programs are back on the add remove menu, but
they have disappeared from the folders I had to put them in to have this happen. I'm simply trying to understand the "why" of this a bit better. DH "Sharon F" wrote in message ... On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:30:57 -0500, Dudley Henriques wrote: I accidentally left side dragged Wordpad and Notepad to the desktop to create shortcuts there instead of right side dragging them. I got the desktop shortcuts but lost the listing of these two programs in the add programs/accessories list. To get them back on the add programs list I tried using Windows Explorer and went to the Start menu folder/accessories sub folder and copied the desktop shortcuts and pasted them in there. They show up on the add programs list normally now. but for some reason, after closing Windows Explorer and opening it again, the two icons I pasted in there (Wordpad and Notepad) are now missing where they showed in the Windows Explorer accessories folder before. . Is there some reason for this? I'd like to understand how this process worked....getting both Wordpad and Notepad back into the add programs listing. Did I do it correctly, or have I done it incorrectly. I can't figure out why the programs were showing in Windows Explorer, and not showing up there now. I've never moved my Notepad and Wordpad shortcuts. I'm finding Notepad in Documents and Settings\myaccount\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories and Wordpad is in Documents and Settings\All Users\Star Menu\Programs\Accessories. Suggest trying again using Windows Explorer or my Computer to copy/paste these shortcuts back into position. TIP: In the future when you want to duplicate or add a shortcut to the desktop, try a right click on the item. Then select Send To Desktop as a shortcut. -- Sharon F MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User |
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I found it philo, and thanks again for answering. I was looking in the wrong
tree of folders on Windows Explorer for the programs. They were in the tree under my name rather than the "all users" tree. I didn't realize that XP sets up a seperate tree for each user. (I don't go into Windows Explorer all that much :-) Thanks again DH "philo" wrote in message ... "Dudley Henriques" wrote in message ... I accidentally left side dragged Wordpad and Notepad to the desktop to create shortcuts there instead of right side dragging them. I got the desktop shortcuts but lost the listing of these two programs in the add programs/accessories list. To get them back on the add programs list I tried using Windows Explorer and went to the Start menu folder/accessories sub folder and copied the desktop shortcuts and pasted them in there. They show up on the add programs list normally now. but for some reason, after closing Windows Explorer and opening it again, the two icons I pasted in there (Wordpad and Notepad) are now missing where they showed in the Windows Explorer accessories folder before. . Is there some reason for this? I'd like to understand how this process worked....getting both Wordpad and Notepad back into the add programs listing. Did I do it correctly, or have I done it incorrectly. I can't figure out why the programs were showing in Windows Explorer, and not showing up there now. Thanks much Dudley just put wordpad and notepad *back* in their original place... then create the shortcuts on your desktop by right clicking and selecting "create short cut" don;t know why you have tried complicating matters so much |
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I have it now Sharon; thank you. I was looking in the wrong place in Windows
Explorer. I had missed the "my name" tree all together. The programs are there under my name in that tree as you said. Thanks again DH "Sharon F" wrote in message ... On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:30:57 -0500, Dudley Henriques wrote: I accidentally left side dragged Wordpad and Notepad to the desktop to create shortcuts there instead of right side dragging them. I got the desktop shortcuts but lost the listing of these two programs in the add programs/accessories list. To get them back on the add programs list I tried using Windows Explorer and went to the Start menu folder/accessories sub folder and copied the desktop shortcuts and pasted them in there. They show up on the add programs list normally now. but for some reason, after closing Windows Explorer and opening it again, the two icons I pasted in there (Wordpad and Notepad) are now missing where they showed in the Windows Explorer accessories folder before. . Is there some reason for this? I'd like to understand how this process worked....getting both Wordpad and Notepad back into the add programs listing. Did I do it correctly, or have I done it incorrectly. I can't figure out why the programs were showing in Windows Explorer, and not showing up there now. I've never moved my Notepad and Wordpad shortcuts. I'm finding Notepad in Documents and Settings\myaccount\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories and Wordpad is in Documents and Settings\All Users\Star Menu\Programs\Accessories. Suggest trying again using Windows Explorer or my Computer to copy/paste these shortcuts back into position. TIP: In the future when you want to duplicate or add a shortcut to the desktop, try a right click on the item. Then select Send To Desktop as a shortcut. -- Sharon F MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User |
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote in
: I accidentally left side dragged Wordpad and Notepad to the desktop to create shortcuts there instead of right side dragging them. I got the desktop shortcuts but lost the listing of these two programs in the add programs/accessories list. To get them back on the add programs list I tried using Windows Explorer and went to the Start menu folder/accessories sub folder and copied the desktop shortcuts and pasted them in there. They show up on the add programs list normally now. but for some reason, after closing Windows Explorer and opening it again, the two icons I pasted in there (Wordpad and Notepad) are now missing where they showed in the Windows Explorer accessories folder before. . Is there some reason for this? I'd like to understand how this process worked....getting both Wordpad and Notepad back into the add programs listing. Did I do it correctly, or have I done it incorrectly. I can't figure out why the programs were showing in Windows Explorer, and not showing up there now. Thanks much Dudley ok.....left-button drag-n-drop..... if the source item, ie- c:\D & S\username\Starmenu\Notepad.exe, is on the same drive as the destination folder, ie- c:\D & S\username\Desktop\, then the default op is move dragged file. if the dest folder is on a different drive, it is copied. to be sure of what you are doing w/d-n-drop, use the right-button to d-n- d and the d-n-d context menu will show with the choice of to move, to copy, or to cancel. regards, DanS |
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Thanks. I will use this method in the future.
DH "DanS" wrote in message ... "Dudley Henriques" wrote in : I accidentally left side dragged Wordpad and Notepad to the desktop to create shortcuts there instead of right side dragging them. I got the desktop shortcuts but lost the listing of these two programs in the add programs/accessories list. To get them back on the add programs list I tried using Windows Explorer and went to the Start menu folder/accessories sub folder and copied the desktop shortcuts and pasted them in there. They show up on the add programs list normally now. but for some reason, after closing Windows Explorer and opening it again, the two icons I pasted in there (Wordpad and Notepad) are now missing where they showed in the Windows Explorer accessories folder before. . Is there some reason for this? I'd like to understand how this process worked....getting both Wordpad and Notepad back into the add programs listing. Did I do it correctly, or have I done it incorrectly. I can't figure out why the programs were showing in Windows Explorer, and not showing up there now. Thanks much Dudley ok.....left-button drag-n-drop..... if the source item, ie- c:\D & S\username\Starmenu\Notepad.exe, is on the same drive as the destination folder, ie- c:\D & S\username\Desktop\, then the default op is move dragged file. if the dest folder is on a different drive, it is copied. to be sure of what you are doing w/d-n-drop, use the right-button to d-n- d and the d-n-d context menu will show with the choice of to move, to copy, or to cancel. regards, DanS |
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:33:21 -0500, Dudley Henriques wrote:
I have it now Sharon; thank you. I was looking in the wrong place in Windows Explorer. I had missed the "my name" tree all together. The programs are there under my name in that tree as you said. Thanks again You're very welcome. Glad to hear that you have this sorted now. -- Sharon F MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User |
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