Windows 98se, IE6 SP1
Cannot delete "31 floppy (A)" shortcut,
system error 1026 (this is not a valid shortcut - grayedout).
Other shortcuts are ok, including 3.5 Floppy (A) shortcut.
Any solution? Thanks in advance. milo
Ben Myers - 27 Apr 2005 00:45 GMT
> Windows 98se, IE6 SP1
> Cannot delete "31 floppy (A)" shortcut,
> system error 1026 (this is not a valid shortcut - grayedout).
> Other shortcuts are ok, including 3.5 Floppy (A) shortcut.
> Any solution? Thanks in advance. milo
Move or copy the other shortcuts and any other files or
folders to another folder, then click "Start", "Run", type
the following into the "Open" box, click "OK" and confirm
the deletion or deletions. If the problem file disappears,
restore the original shortcuts.
deltree c:\windows\sendto\*.*
Ben
Spajky - 27 Apr 2005 02:15 GMT
>Windows 98se,
>Cannot delete "31 floppy (A)" shortcut,
>system error 1026 (this is not a valid shortcut - grayedout).
>Other shortcuts are ok, including 3.5 Floppy (A) shortcut.
it is a Fat error & sometimes difficult to repair!
1st try:
boot to Safe mode & run Scandisk w/ option fix errors & than defrag
if doesn´t help, 2nd try:
make somewhere with notepad blank document & a shortcut to it; rename
manually the shortcut exactly as that non eraseable one. Than copy
that new one to the same place that the bad one is with option to
overwrite it. Than repeat the 1st try ...
hope this will resolve your problem ... (if not there are other, but
not so simple options! ... I had also this kind of problem few times
in last 8 years) ...

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Mikhail Zhilin - 27 Apr 2005 07:10 GMT
I think, the first step -- Scandisk -- will help in this case. Even if
to run it in normal mode. But to add:
At http://www.diskcleaners.com/ there is a nice utility, Delete Doctor,
which can delete such files by their short (DOS) names: in the most
cases "system error 1026" means that the conformity with the long
(Windows) and short (DOS) name is lost.
This utility can delete also the files that are in use, what is useful
when it is need to delete, say, the Trojan files.
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>>Windows 98se,
>>Cannot delete "31 floppy (A)" shortcut,
[quoted text clipped - 15 lines]
>not so simple options! ... I had also this kind of problem few times
>in last 8 years) ...
mbacic3 - 27 Apr 2005 20:29 GMT
Ben, Spajky, Mikhail, thanks. It's done. Don't know
exactly how, most probably Ben's suggestion did it.
> Windows 98se, IE6 SP1
> Cannot delete "31 floppy (A)" shortcut,
> system error 1026 (this is not a valid shortcut - grayedout).
> Other shortcuts are ok, including 3.5 Floppy (A) shortcut.
> Any solution? Thanks in advance. milo
blabla - 30 Apr 2005 18:17 GMT
suggested by Ben Myers,
but I did it in DOS, copying:
deltree c:\windows\sendto\*.*
into my autoexec.bat (I deleted this afterwards)
guys, thanks a lot!
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> > Windows 98se, IE6 SP1
> > Cannot delete "31 floppy (A)" shortcut,
> > system error 1026 (this is not a valid shortcut - grayedout).
> > Other shortcuts are ok, including 3.5 Floppy (A) shortcut.
> > Any solution? Thanks in advance. milo