Andy Posted October 3, 2004 Report Share Posted October 3, 2004 All of a sudden, none of the Launch Program commands will work if the program is a .lnk file, a shortcut. This has always worked fine for me, the only thing that's changed is that I installed 3 Windows Updates: KB873374 Microsoft GDI+ Detection Tool KB833987 Security Update for Windows XP KB883357 Update for Background Transfer Service This is most inconvenient, I had some very handy macros that used this capability. Any ideas? Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noggin the Nog Posted October 3, 2004 Report Share Posted October 3, 2004 I'm sure you would prefer to have your .lnk launches working but you can perform the launch actions directly on the files that the .lnk would start (eg .exe, .bat). Not great if you have many macros already in service. As far as MS updates go, I download security updates but nothing else that I don't have an immediate problem with/need to resolve. Take a look through any pc forum at the number of problems occurring after an update. Your problem may be unrelated to the updates, things sometimes go wrong without help from MS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted October 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2004 I figured it out. I had also installed a utility to add to my right click menu "copy path to clipboard". When I uninstalled it, macros that launched .lnk files worked again. Whew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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