Hello Yolanda:
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 00:01:03 -0600 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Subject: Re: Problem with shortcut
>> Hello:
>> I was preparing to install a WIN95 program from a CD ROM. Then I
>> decided not to install it by clicking on "Abort Installation". Now
>> every time I load WIN95 I get an error dialog box saying "Problem with
>> Shortcut: The file or folder SETUP.EXE that this shortcut refers to
>> cannot be found". The dialog box has two buttons. I can click on OK, or
>> I can click on CANCEL. Regardless of whatever button I click on, this
>> dialog box will appear every time I load WIN95. I cannot determine where
>> this shortcut file is. I did not knowingly do anything to create this
>> shortcut. Does anyone know what I need to do in order to make this
>> idiotic dialog box never to appear again? Please help. Thanks.
>> Sam Heywood
> start with msconfig from the run dialog box (start-->run "msconfig") and
> see if you can find it there. If not, do a search in your registry
> (regedit from the run dialog box, ctrl+f) and see if you can find reference
> to it in there.
There is no such file named MSCONFIG.* or similar anywhere on the machine.
I don't know how to use the REGEDIT thing. That is one of the things I
hate so much about Windows. To fix problems you have to use the registry
editor, and this is the ugliest looking and most seemingly unfriendly and
least intuitive software I have ever seen. So far I have found nothing in
the manuals or help files saying anything about the registry editor that
makes any sense to me. I know from experience that if I start fooling
around with the registry editor without understanding what I'm doing, I will
then get error messages saying that the system registry is FUBAR and that I
must re-install Windows. I don't want to have to resort to such drastic
measures just to suppress a minor nuisance and an annoyance problem such
as the one I have described. I was hoping there might be an easy way to
fix this without having to invoke the dreaded registry editor. Perhaps
the main reason why so many Windows installations are running so poorly
is that the average Windows user doesn't know how to use the registry
editor to fix any of the problems. They don't even teach things like that
in computer science courses in the local community colleges. They just
teach you about how to use the Windows GUI on a system that is already set
up and working properly. This is like teaching you how to drive in a car
that always starts up and runs well, but without teaching you what to do
when the car won't start. Trying to jump start your car without knowing
and understanding what you are doing can result in absolutely disastrous
consequences. You don't even need to know how to jump start your car in
order to get a driver's license. You don't even have to know how to go
about fixing silly little problems with your Windows installation in order
to get an associate's degree in programming and systems analysis. Things
ought not to be that way.
Anyway, thanks for trying to help.
Sam Heywood
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