I've had this problem and it requires a registry edit to fix it.  Make sure
you back up your registry before you do any editing.  Go to run and type
regedit.  Go to the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk\ShellNew . (that's an L in
lnk)  Look at the value for COMMAND.  It should read
C:\WINDOWS\rundll32.exe AppWiz.Cpl,NewLinkHere %2 .  You can change the
entry by right clicking on command and selecting modify.  Then just edit the
value.

When I had this problem, a program had changed the last entry to %1 .  See
if that isn't your problem.

Ben Moore


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul A. Shippert
Subject: [PCSOFT] Program-free shortcuts?!


>Greetings all--
>
>I have recently (approximately the last week or so) developed an
>odd problem in Win95 (version 4.00.950a) running IE 4.01 SP-1
>with several of the patches.  Regardless of the method I employ
>to create a shortcut from scratch--desktop or within a folder--I
>get as far as <right click or 'file'>-->new-->shortcut, and am
>left with a new shortcut.  None of the intervening steps of
>browsing for the command line or naming the shortcut come up.  I
>can use the shortcut one time by choosing the application to use
>to "open it", but this is hardly the point of the whole
>exercise.Does anyone have any idea what may have caused this?
>

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