Re: Desktop Icons

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Something is interfering with the Web site connection,

Go to the Control panel, select Classic view,
Double click Internet options,
Click Security tab and select Internet,
Click Advanced tab, scroll down and select Turn on automatic website
checking.
Next
Double click Network connections,
See if your Lan or High-Speed Internet shows it is connected.

--
Jerry

If you want the best seat in the house,
You'll have to move the cat.

"sherbrooke" <newsab02407@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:iafkU5Cigw3FFwTY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In message <#hbqcPwVHHA.1200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "JerryM (ID)"
<jerrym526@xxxxxxx> writes
Just a quick follow up on creating a shortcut,

Right click on the desktop, select New, Shortcut,
Type: http://www.Google.com/
(ignore the underline)
click Next and Finish.

Jerry,

Thanks once again for your input.
Unfortunately your suggestion does not work.

It is obviously a problem with the particular computer, your suggestion
works fine on two other machines, but the computer in question has a
problem with Desktop Icons that relate to a Web Address. It works fine
with Icons for programs on the computer.

As a further guide to the problem, when I created a shortcut, as
suggested, to Google, the shortcut is displayed with a typical large G for
the Google Icon, the properties URL box read exactly as mentioned in your
reply, but whether I single click, double click, or right click and use
Open on the Drop Down Menu, nothing happens, it is as though the facility
to open a Web Site via a Shortcut has been disabled on the computer, I
don't know whether such a thing is possible, but if it is, I would love to
know how to enable it again!

I hope you may have further suggestions,

Many thanks
--
sherbrooke


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