[Yeoman]

If I try to send a shortcut of a website to my desktop in the usual way, all of a sudden I get an error box saying, "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Folder Options Control Panel."

Also some of my existing I.E. desktop shortcuts now do the same thing, but not all of them.

I have gone to the Folder Options Control Panel, but could not understand what it is all about. Could someone please assist me?

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when you want to save a webpage you can just click on the favorites menu in IE and click add to favorites then click ok and it will be saved. to access that page again just click on favorites again and find it in the list. no need to save webpages to your desktop.

[ViprXX]

when you want to save a webpage you can just click on the favorites menu in IE and click add to favorites then click ok and it will be saved. to access that page again just click on favorites again and find it in the list. no need to save webpages to your desktop.

[Yeoman]

Hi ViprXX

Sorry have been a way for a couple of days. Thanks for that. Yes I know that I can do than, but I find it convenient to have some of the more common sites on my desktop as shortcuts. For some reason the computer is not recognizing these shortcuts as being linked to the donwloaded site on the favorites menu, and sending the error msg I mentioned. Is there some tweak I can make to re-establish the recognition of shortcuts via folder options and creating extensions etc?

Thanks

[ViprXX]

try to Right-Click the shortcut on the desktop and choose the "Open With..." option which will bring up a slide menu and click the "Choose Program..." option then on the new window that pops up choose Internet Explorer and make sure to put a check in the box that says to always use the selected program to open this kind of file then click OK. That should do it for ya. lemme know if you have any problems.

later