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Desktop #948969
04/08/14 10:20 AM
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Hello, Lost option to right click,select,"Send to desktop". Don't know why. Google solution-Create text file in "Sendto" folder called "Desktop(create shortcut).Desklink" didn't work.Making a text file doesn't make sense to me. Any ideas?

Re: Desktop [Re: Geo] #948972
04/08/14 10:31 AM
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Does this work?
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windo...d0-8dd29d9283aa

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1. Click Start , type the following path and press Enter :

C:\Users\default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo

2. Copy the file Desktop (create shortcut) from the Default user folder and place a copy in your user profile SendTo folder.

3. The SendTo folder of your user profile can be accessed by typing shell:sendto in the Start-search box.

Re: Desktop [Re: Geo] #948979
04/08/14 10:49 AM
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That worked perfect!! Thanks.
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Edit: The link didn't work but your explanation worked perfect. I wonder what happened to it?

Re: Desktop [Re: Geo] #949058
04/08/14 05:36 PM
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Great! Glad it worked!

Re: Desktop [Re: Geo] #949829
04/13/14 03:01 PM
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The top solution does work. I suspect that Geo has the default setting of hiding registered extensions. This would have hidden the ".txt" extension, so the name of the file after renaming would have been "Desktop(create shortcut).Desklink.txt" instead of the required "Desktop(create shortcut).Desklink". If the actual extension is "Desklink", then the displayed icon will change from Notepad to the monitor icon.

The one created when a profile is created has the string "desktop" in the file, but this does not seem to be required.


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