Icon - can't change target/icon

Recently I had to rebuild my computer because of spyware.
It is W98

The problem: If you right click on some of my desktop
icons, under the "shortcut" tab, there is nothing change.
You can't change the target or icon, nothing,
it's 'blanked' out.

The Icons I can't change a Microsoft Office Icons, and
a Word Perfect11 one.

All the other icons I have on my desktop, Spysweeper,
Webshot, Juno, FreeCell, Internet Explorer, WinFile I can
change icons or change the target or 'start in'.

What I want to do is change the "start in" for my Excel.
It worked the first day, then it 'reverted' to starting in
XLS Startup.....

Not one person I asked had ever heard of the shortcut
tab's information not being able to be changed.

Please email me at the above email, because with all the
postings, I'm not sure if I'll be able to find this one
again.

Right now the only thing I can think of is to reinstall
the programs. If anyone has a better idea, please let me
know.

Thanks

Hi Debi,

Sorry no email support.

Have you tried creating a new shortcut?

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"Debi" wrote
Recently I had to rebuild my computer because of spyware.
It is W98

The problem: If you right click on some of my desktop
icons, under the "shortcut" tab, there is nothing change.
You can't change the target or icon, nothing,
it's 'blanked' out.

The Icons I can't change a Microsoft Office Icons, and
a Word Perfect11 one.

All the other icons I have on my desktop, Spysweeper,
Webshot, Juno, FreeCell, Internet Explorer, WinFile I can
change icons or change the target or 'start in'.

What I want to do is change the "start in" for my Excel.
It worked the first day, then it 'reverted' to starting in
XLS Startup.....

Not one person I asked had ever heard of the shortcut
tab's information not being able to be changed.

Please email me at the above email, because with all the
postings, I'm not sure if I'll be able to find this one
again.

Right now the only thing I can think of is to reinstall
the programs. If anyone has a better idea, please let me
know.

Thanks

I included an email reply here, but please respond to the newsgroup if at all
possible.

Those "shortcuts" you mention for MS Office and WP suites aren't normal
shortcuts. They're much more complicated than the usual LNK file shortcuts. More
like "My Computer", "Recycle Bin", "My Documents", "Internet Explorer", etc.,
created using special "namespace" entries in the Registry. While I imagine there
are some Registry tweaks that can be done to change the default locations for
apps you launch using these "namespace" shortcuts, the easier thing to do would
be to create a few plain LNK shortcuts to the particular apps. Name them
appropriately, perhaps not just Excel, but for the particular Excel project you
want to work on, and setting the "Open in" value to the storage folder for that
particular project.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"Debi" wrote in message
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Recently I had to rebuild my computer because of spyware.
It is W98

The problem: If you right click on some of my desktop
icons, under the "shortcut" tab, there is nothing change.
You can't change the target or icon, nothing,
it's 'blanked' out.

The Icons I can't change a Microsoft Office Icons, and
a Word Perfect11 one.

All the other icons I have on my desktop, Spysweeper,
Webshot, Juno, FreeCell, Internet Explorer, WinFile I can
change icons or change the target or 'start in'.

What I want to do is change the "start in" for my Excel.
It worked the first day, then it 'reverted' to starting in
XLS Startup.....

Not one person I asked had ever heard of the shortcut
tab's information not being able to be changed.

Please email me at the above email, because with all the
postings, I'm not sure if I'll be able to find this one
again.

Right now the only thing I can think of is to reinstall
the programs. If anyone has a better idea, please let me
know.

Thanks