RE: Where have all the shortcuts gone?

2015-07-03 Thread Rick Thomas via Talk
Thomas; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' Subject: Re: Where have all the shortcuts gone? Hey Rick, My Bad this time, I guess. I found the shortcut files in a folder I had copied some extracted files too from the desktop. I don't know how the hell I managed to select those files along with the one's I

RE: Where have all the shortcuts gone?

2015-07-02 Thread Rick Thomas via Talk
Hi: That happened to me a couple of times and like you I was lucky and found them in the Recycle bin. I don't know, it happened while I was having problems with WindowEyes so I have no idea if it is a WindowEyes related thing or not. It wasn't the OS cleaning up unused icons since one of them was

RE: Where have all the shortcuts gone?

2015-07-02 Thread via Talk
Disk CleanUp doesn't remove shortcuts from the desktop, but the system maintenance troubleshooter does. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/978980 I don't know if this pertains to Win 8 or not. -Original Message- From: Talk

Re: Where have all the shortcuts gone?

2015-07-02 Thread Larry Higgins via Talk
Hey Rick, My Bad this time, I guess. I found the shortcut files in a folder I had copied some extracted files too from the desktop. I don't know how the hell I managed to select those files along with the one's I actually wanted, but in this case, I apparently did. However all that you say