Cannot create shortcut on desktop windows 7

Are you the administrator on the computer? Have you tried creating the shortcut from the administrator account? Is windows defender enabled on the computer? Unfortunately performing system restore in your case will not assist in resolving the issue as the computer is brand new. I apologize I missed the information provided in the earlier post. But do let us know the answers to assist you better. For example, I have a PDF file in a folder on the hard drive. I have already tried to isolate the problem by disabling Norton.

The problem still occurs. An update to the above. So, I did that this morning. Have you made any progress? My answers to your questions are listed above.

Please get back to me when possible. I have isolated this problem. Is there a "patch" for this issue? I tried enabling Protected Mode, restarting IE11 and tried to create a shortcut but still got the error message. I disabled Protected Mode, restarting IE11 and tried to create a shortcut but still got the error message so that was not a solution to this issue for me Problem: If I right-click a favorite in my favorites list, select Send To and select Desktop create a short cut I get the following message: "Windows could not create the shortcut.

So far: 1 I booted in Safe Mode. Problem still exists. Not sure what to try next!!! This thread is locked. On your Windows 7 PC, shortcuts that you create on the desktop may be missing. This can happen if the the System Maintenance troubleshooter detects the shortcuts as broken. The System Maintenance troubleshooter performs a weekly maintenance of the operating system. The System Maintenance troubleshooter either fixes problems automatically or reports problems through Action Center.

When there are more than four broken shortcuts on the desktop, the System Maintenance troubleshooter automatically removes all broken shortcuts from the desktop. What is a broken link? A "Broken" shortcut is a shortcut to a file, folder or drive that may not always be available, for example, a desktop shortcut for a USB device may be regarded as broken if the USB device is not connected when the System Maintenance troubleshooter performs its maintenance, or, a network folder that is currently not available due to the network not being available.

Keep the number of broken shortcuts on your desktop to four or less. You might accomplish this by removing all but 4 of your most used shortcuts on the Desktop. If have more than 4 shortcuts, you can also create a folder on your desktop and move the shortcuts to that folder. These shortcuts will not be removed since they don't sit directly on the desktop.

If you must have more than four broken shortcuts on your desktop, you can disable the System Maintenance troubleshooter. Note If you disable the System Maintenance troubleshooter, all the maintenance tasks that it performs are disabled. Therefore, we recommend that you use Method 1. Edit : actually since you're getting an error message, what I said above shouldn't normally apply. Maybe it's simply a Windows Security issue?

Does the user have write access to the Desktop? There in ultra BUG in jnlp processing. I spent on it whole day and fixed it 5min ago. If yout JNLP file has href at jnlp element, then it won't install shortcuts and will behave poping up warning like "Unable to create shortcut for How are we doing? Please help us improve Stack Overflow. Take our short survey.

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