

That is how you can tell that the icon is a desktop shortcut to a file, and not the actual file itself. The icon for the desktop shortcut appears within your Desktop with a small arrow in the icon’s lower left corner. Windows will automatically add a shortcut to the selected item to the desktop.Ĭreate Desktop Shortcuts in Windows 8.1- Tutorial: A picture of a user creating a desktop shortcut to a folder. Roll your mouse pointer over the “Send to” command in the pop-up menu that appears and then click the “Desktop (create shortcut)” command in the side menu that appears. Then, right-click the item for which you want to create a desktop shortcut. To create desktop shortcuts in Windows 8.1, use a File Explorer window to navigate to the folder, file, or program for which you want to create a desktop shortcut, so that the item is displayed in the right pane within File Explorer. A desktop shortcut is an icon on your Desktop that opens an associated program, file, or folder when you double-click the icon. Instead of using File Explorer to navigate through the computer’s folders to find files in your computer, you can create a desktop shortcut that allows you to quickly open or access files, folders or programs.
#Windows 8.1 desktops mac os#
#Windows 8.1 desktops 32 bit#
Output should be as follows (except last two Wow6432Node items on 32 bit OS): =>D:\bat\SU\935604.batĭesktop REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\DesktopĬommon Desktop REG_SZ C:\Users\Public\DesktopĬommon Desktop REG_EXPAND_SZ %PUBLIC%\Desktop Set "common=Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer"Ĭall :query "HKU\.DEFAULT\Software\%common%\User Shell Folders" "Desktop"Ĭall :query "HKCU\Software\%common%\Shell Folders" "Desktop"Ĭall :query "HKCU\Software\%common%\User Shell Folders" "Desktop"Ĭall :query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\%common%\Shell Folders" "Common Desktop"Ĭall :query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\%common%\User Shell Folders" "Common Desktop"Ĭall :query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\%common%\Shell Folders" "Common Desktop"Ĭall :query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\%common%\User Shell Folders" "Common Desktop"
#Windows 8.1 desktops update#
Internet Explorer will not start but SAS can automatically update its database over the internet.Īll shares are accessible from other computers. Note that logging is currently not supported in offline servicing Scenarios.

I eventually managed to boot into safe mode with a command prompt allowing ne to run sfc /scannow but resulted in a message "Windows resource protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them. Most applications will not open and my desktop shows only a couple of icons (even they all show when I open my computer and click on the desktop folder).

I changed the properties of my systemprofile folder - I tried to add my own name as a user with full rights (even though I am the administrator), but now I have lost the file "C:\windows\system32\config\systemprofile\desk top" (it is no longer visible)and I am getting the error message "shellexecuteEX failed to start:code1068 the dependency service or group failed to start.
