krose Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Weird issue I just discovered since I use Firefox most of the time. With the latest beta_k and IE7 on XP Home and Pro SP3, clicking on the IE desktop shortcut only creates a copy of the shortcut. Right clicking does not show "open home page" in the context menu. Quick launch icon, start > programs > Internet Explorer, and start > run > iexplore.exe work fine. IE6 on Win2K works fine. This is with all current HF's. Anybody else have this happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 (edited) Don't know why it's making a copy of the shortcut. I would delete it and create a new one by merging a reg file below.Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]"{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\ClassicStartMenu]"{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945402 Edited April 29, 2009 by -X- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krose Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 (edited) The reg tweak didn't do anything. I checked my wife's laptop that I had last done using beta_d with XP Home SP3. The IE7 icon launches IE7 as usual. In the context menu there are entries for "open home page" and "start without add-ons". These are missing when I use beta_k, the first entry is "create shortcut", so when I double click the icon it creates a shortcut. It is no big deal I was just wondering if anyone else observed this.Edit: Ran beta k with IE8 and KB968220. Everything works perfectly. Edited April 30, 2009 by krose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bozzy2k Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 I've the exact same issue:-double-clicking creates a shortcut instead of starting ie-right clicking the icon shows: create shortcut, delete, rename and properties instead of open home page, start without add-ons, create shortcut, delete, rename and properties Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamtheky Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 from: http://help.wugnet.com/windows/Double-clic...pict565593.htmlSee if this works for IE7 :http://www.divshare.com/download/46737-e0a Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krose Posted May 1, 2009 Author Share Posted May 1, 2009 (edited) I've the exact same issue:-double-clicking creates a shortcut instead of starting ie-right clicking the icon shows: create shortcut, delete, rename and properties instead of open home page, start without add-ons, create shortcut, delete, rename and propertiesI thought I had messed something up. It's a relief to have confirmation from another user. I hope the reg tweak posted works for you. I am just going to stay with IE8 for now since it works. Thanks for the responses. Edited May 1, 2009 by krose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bozzy2k Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 (edited) from: http://help.wugnet.com/windows/Double-clic...pict565593.htmlSee if this works for IE7 :http://www.divshare.com/download/46737-e0aThe registry key works partially, thanks for the input. Double clicking the icon now starts ie, but the "start without add-ons" option is stil "missing". I've also tried integrating XPSP2 + SP3 + IE7 whithout patches and XPSP + SP3 + IE7 with only the IE7 cummulative patch but it didn't make a difference.Since IE8 is final for more then a month now it's a good moment to move up a version. Edited May 1, 2009 by bozzy2k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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