re: How to remove custom shortcuts Sunday, May 21, 2006 at 4:23 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Paul J. (7 messages posted) I wish I had found this entry before posting my last follow up. The reboot took care of the problem. I did find a nice freeware utility on Download.com. Here's some info: Shortcuts Map 2.3 for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Server 2003 Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Hai Li, Zeal SoftStudio. Date: April 8, 2004 Homepage: http://www.zealsoft.com/ (English) This lists all shortcuts on the desktop, and in the start menu and links to edit the properties. Nice. Thanks for the tip. (About rebooting). On Monday, October 31, 2005 at 6:31 am, RetinaBurn wrote: >I had the same problem and the only way I got it resolved was by deleting the destination >file (what the no longer existing shortcut points to) and execute the custom key >combination. WindowsXP begins to search for the file and lets you browse for it too. >At this point I hit cancel and do the key combination again. After 3 attempts, Windows >tells you the file no longer exists and asks if you want to delete the shortcut. >It worked for me. > >If you want to reuse the same key combination for something else, you will need to >reboot before Windows lets you set it for another shortcut. > > > > Written in response to: re: How to remove custom shortcuts (RetinaBurn: Monday, October 31, 2005 at 6:31 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] How to remove custom shortcuts (Jonas: Thu, Mar 17, 2005, 4:55 pm) re: How to remove custom shortcuts (RetinaBurn: Mon, Oct 31, 2005, 6:31 am) re: How to remove custom shortcuts (Paul J.: Sun, May 21, 2006, 4:23 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum