My name is Frank Warhurst,  I sought help from a MS support site because
clicking on links at an internet site failed to call up  what was linked -
In each case if I copied the link and pasted it in the GO window, it worked.
    I followed directions, which cleared up this problem I was having with
links not
working on the internet.  It involved going to Folder Options, File Types
and editing some lines which employed short file names, - i.e.
'PROGRA~1\INTERN~1....', instead of 'PROGRAM FILES\INTERNET EXPLORER.......'
for a single File Type.
    However, there were other failures of a similar sort so I used REGEDIT
to search for any entries having '....~1...', which would indicate places
which should have the long forms of the file names in the addresses.  THERE
WERE HUNDREDS OF THEM!  I began correcting them one by one but it is an
impossibly tedious task.
    Is there any less cumbersome way one could cause these all to be
properly altered?

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