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sherbrooke - 20 Feb 2007 19:50 GMT
I would appreciate advise/help on the following:

Windows XP Home - Icons on Desktop work fine and by clicking on them,
they open the appropriate program. However whenever I create an icon to
open a web page and I click on it - nothing happens, even doing a right
click and clicking OPEN - nothing happens.

I have tried various ways of creating these icons, Right clicking on the
Desktop, click new, create shortcut, insert the URL, click finish and I
have put the URL into the address bar for IE7 and then dragged the IE
icon to the left of the URL onto the Desktop.  Both of these methods
work on other computers, but not on the computer I am currently working
on.

I would be very grateful for suggestions on how I might solve this
problem.

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JerryM (ID) - 20 Feb 2007 20:44 GMT
Try double clicking the Icon

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Jerry

If you want the best seat in the house,
You'll have to move the cat.

>I would appreciate advise/help on the following:
>
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> I would be very grateful for suggestions on how I might solve this
> problem.
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sherbrooke - 21 Feb 2007 11:53 GMT
n message <#XD1u$SVHHA.4796@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, "JerryM (ID)"
<jerrym526@msn.org> writes
>Try double clicking the Icon

Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't have any effect, just like the
single click.
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JerryM (ID) - 21 Feb 2007 15:43 GMT
Can you give an example of the shortcut - properties?

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Jerry

If you want the best seat in the house,
You'll have to move the cat.

>n message <#XD1u$SVHHA.4796@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, "JerryM (ID)"
><jerrym526@msn.org> writes
>>Try double clicking the Icon
>>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't have any effect, just like the
> single click.
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JerryM (ID) - 22 Feb 2007 15:59 GMT
Right click the Icon and select properties,
Show what is on the Target line.

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Jerry

If you want the best seat in the house,
You'll have to move the cat.

> Can you give an example of the shortcut - properties?
>
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>> Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't have any effect, just like the
>> single click.
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sherbrooke - 22 Feb 2007 17:33 GMT
>Right click the Icon and select properties,
>Show what is on the Target line.

Jerry,
Here is what is displayed under properties of the Icon:

UNDER THE WEB DOCUMENT TAB

URL    http://xxxx.com/xxxx   - where xxx is the name of the site etc

Shortcut Key    -  None

UNDER THE GENERAL TAB

Type of File --- Internet Shortcut

Description --- Tee Booking System

Location --- c:\Documents and Settings\John\Desktop

Size---- 122 Bytes (122 Bytes)

Size on Disk---4.00 KB (4096 Bytes)

Created--- 14 February 2007 at 14.54

Modified ---14 February 2007 at 14.54

Accessed--- 14 February 2007 @ 14.54

Attributes --- neither of the boxes are checked

Hope this helps and look forward to your further comments.
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JerryM (ID) - 23 Feb 2007 04:17 GMT
OK, I can see what you are doing,

Just for an example of what I use,

http://www.google.com/

Takes me to the Google Internet browser.
I usually don't put anything after the slash unless I need an index or
specific program,
but  the 3 w's are needed in front of the URL.name.

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Jerry

If you want the best seat in the house,
You'll have to move the cat.

>>Right click the Icon and select properties,
>>Show what is on the Target line.
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> Hope this helps and look forward to your further comments.
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JerryM (ID) - 23 Feb 2007 04:33 GMT
Just a quick follow up on creating a shortcut,

Right click on the desktop, select New, Shortcut,
Type:  http://www.Google.com/
(ignore the underline)
click Next and Finish.

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Jerry

If you want the best seat in the house,
You'll have to move the cat.

>>Right click the Icon and select properties,
>>Show what is on the Target line.
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> URL    http://xxxx.com/xxxx   - where xxx is the name of the site etc

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sherbrooke - 23 Feb 2007 15:28 GMT
>Just a quick follow up on creating a shortcut,
>
>Right click on the desktop, select New, Shortcut,
>Type:  http://www.Google.com/
>(ignore the underline)
>click Next and Finish.

Jerry,

Thanks once again for your input.
Unfortunately your suggestion does not work.

It is obviously a problem with the particular computer, your suggestion
works fine on two other machines, but the computer in question has a
problem with Desktop Icons that relate to a Web Address. It works fine
with Icons for programs on the computer.

As a further guide to the problem, when I created a shortcut, as
suggested, to Google, the shortcut is displayed with a typical large G
for the Google Icon, the properties URL box read exactly as mentioned in
your reply, but whether I single click, double click, or right click and
use Open on the Drop Down Menu, nothing happens, it is as though the
facility to open a Web Site via a Shortcut has been disabled on the
computer, I don't know whether such a thing is possible, but if it is, I
would love to know how to enable it again!

I hope you may have further suggestions,

Many thanks
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JerryM (ID) - 23 Feb 2007 15:41 GMT
I'm working on it,
Hope to find a solution for you.
Hopefully someone else has one.

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If you want the best seat in the house,
You'll have to move the cat.

>>Just a quick follow up on creating a shortcut,

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JerryM (ID) - 23 Feb 2007 16:23 GMT
Something is interfering with the Web site connection,

Go to the Control panel, select Classic view,
Double click Internet options,
Click Security tab and select Internet,
Click Advanced tab, scroll down and select Turn on automatic website
checking.
Next
Double click Network connections,
See if your Lan or High-Speed Internet shows it is connected.

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Jerry

If you want the best seat in the house,
You'll have to move the cat.

>>Just a quick follow up on creating a shortcut,
>>
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> Many thanks
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sherbrooke - 23 Feb 2007 21:01 GMT
>Something is interfering with the Web site connection,
>
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>Double click Network connections,
>See if your Lan or High-Speed Internet shows it is connected.

Thanks Jerry,

However, After selecting Internet Options and then Security Tab, the
Internet, there is no Advanced tab displayed. The only boxes shown are
Custom Level and Default Level.

Scrolling down the Custom Level does not show Turn on automatic website
checking.

Any further ideas?
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JerryM (ID) - 23 Feb 2007 21:52 GMT
What version of Internet Explorer are you using ?
Version 7 is the latest one.

Another thought,
Go back to the control panel and double click network connection and
properties,
right click your connection Icon,
and make sure Internet Protocol [TCP/IP] is checked.

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Jerry

If you want the best seat in the house,
You'll have to move the cat.

>>Something is interfering with the Web site connection,
>>
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> Any further ideas?
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sherbrooke - 28 Feb 2007 17:12 GMT
>What version of Internet Explorer are you using ?
>Version 7 is the latest one.
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>right click your connection Icon,
>and make sure Internet Protocol [TCP/IP] is checked.

Thanks once again Jerry for your input, sorry for the delay in coming
back.

Internet Explorer is Version 7 and the TCP/IP is also checked.

It really is very strange, there must be something particular about this
computer's settings, as every other computer I have tried - 7 in all -
do not have this problem.
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Ayush - 23 Feb 2007 20:02 GMT
Replied to [sherbrooke]s message :
> I would appreciate advise/help on the following:
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> I would be very grateful for suggestions on how I might solve this problem.

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

Run the URL Fix.

Good Luck, Ayush.
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sherbrooke - 23 Feb 2007 21:04 GMT
>Replied to [sherbrooke]s message :
>> I would appreciate advise/help on the following:
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>Good Luck, Ayush.

Thanks Ayush

Already tried this one, did not have any effect.

Regards
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