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Internet Explorer desktop shortcuts (on double-tap)
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 11:36 am
Posted by BPB (3 messages posted)

I'm using a laptop, a Dell Latitude E6400 (well, I'm not using it now to post this) with WinXP Pro and Internet Explorer (either IE7 or 8; I can't tell because of this issue). Whenever I double-tap on the touch-pad, or double-click the buttons below the touch-pad, on the IE icon (or in the Start menu, or even on Windows/Microsoft update in the Start menu) nothing happens and a "Shortcut to IE" appears on the desktop. Double-clicking/tapping on anything else (ex: Outlook) will open the program as normal, whether from the desktop or Start menu. It only happens with Internet Explorer. Has anyone encountered this before? I checked the mouse settings but since it exclusively happens with IE I wouldn't think it has to do with that. At the moment I'm baffled. If there's a link to a solution somewhere I missed in searching please let me know.

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re: Internet Explorer desktop shortcuts (on double-tap)
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Posted by Gomez Addams (24 messages posted)

Yes, I've seen this problem before, no, I don't remember the cause or the solution, 
but it's not the mouse settings.

I think in my case I just recreated the shortcuts. You can try this by finding 'iexplore.exe' 
on your computer, right-clicking on it and selecting 'Create Shortcut' from the context 
menu, and then put that shortcut on your Desktop (Start Menu, Quick Launch, whatever). 

You can always launch IE manually (even after it's been "uninstalled") by going to 
start->run and typing 'iexplore'. If that doesn't work, then something else is going 
on (botched update, malicious code, etc.).

I'm presuming you've already checked for malware. I don't think that's what's going 
on here, but I've learned to never rule it out.

Hope that helps!

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