desktop shortcuts that dont have rights to use ?...

[PoopyPants]

ok for some time now, my g/f system if either she or I create a shortcut on the desktop when you go to click it it says that you dont have permision blah blah you all know the error.

BUT if a program makes the icon most of the time the link works fine. but not always.
nothing else does this, only shortcuts on the desktop.
she/I are the administrators on this machine and for the life of me i cant make this silly thing stop doing it.

Ive only seen this happen one other time in my working with XP, and for the life of me i cant recall what it was that fixed it.

I have tried everything including the compatability, running as a different user, and everything i can think of, even changing the permisions for the desktop which really dont matter since the user is an administrator.

one thing ill check and i usually fix it right after installing windows is that when you create a user and make it an admin, it automatically keeps the "User" group as part of the Group that the user belongs to, but i typically delete that and simply make it a Member of the Administrators Group.

Does anyone know what causes this and what the fix may be ?

many thanks in advance.

sorry Windows XP SP2

 

[PoopyPants]

wow no one ?

 

[rasczak]

are you dragging the icon from the folder? or creating it by right clicking on the icon and sending it to the desktop?

it won't work if you drag the icon out of the folder. the path the icon was using is no longer valid if you move the shortcut.

if you right click instead it works

 

[PoopyPants]

ive done it both ways, neither makes a difference.

ill check again but i think a shortcut to a shortcut actually works but the shortcut to the exe didnt work.

wierrrrrd.

 

[CplHicks]

Are you using XP Home or Professional? Home has weird permissions when you've set the users documents and settings to be kept private. I would bet that what's going on is when one of you creates the icon it's permissions are being set so that they're only for that one user, not all admins. When a program makes the shortcut it's setting putting it in the all users desktop and it's getting everyone permissions.

 

[PoopyPants]

oops i just said xp sp2
nope its pro

all users or just the current user it dont matter
and even if it was using all users permissions it wouldnt matter it would still make it available to everyone.
now the only thing i still need to check and i keep forgetting is what i mentioned above. deleting the "User" group from her profile and simply using only Administator. that may possibly do it i suppose since they technically are no longer a part of the user group.
I simply do that as there is no need to be a "User" when your an admin not to mention that all the shortcuts are made under her account when she is logged in, infact she is the only user on there. i dont think i have administrator disabled. ill check that also.