[Deskcut] What Am I doing wrong in DeskCut?

[John G Walker]

Wesley,

   As far as Deskcut is concerned, you have done nothing wrong.

   You need to update your version of Firefox. Older versions do
   not start from a shortcut,

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All the best,
 John

Thursday, March 23, 2006, 6:12:13 PM, Wesley Smith wrote:

> I love the idea of what I think DeskCut should do, but I can't get it to
> work. I tried updating to the newest version today and retrying it, but
> I keep getting the same results.

> It installs OK, puts a "Create DeskCut" in the context menu and makes a
> shortcut on the desktop. HOWEVER: When I double click the shortcut 
> (Windows XP Pro), FireFox opens, but does not display the targeted web
> page. It puts the correct page address as text in the browser page and
> the location of the shortcut file itself in the URL box:

> Example: (with the Default "Use DDE" both checked and unchecked in the
> file association box);


> *With the default "Use DDE" checked*
> // The 4 lines below show up in the FireFox browser page. The 5^th line
> is what shows up in the URL  Box.
 
> /[DEFAULT]
> BASEURL=http://www.google.com/
> [InternetShortcut]
> URL=http://www.google.com//

> In the URL line of FireFox:
> _file:///c:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Wes/Desktop/Google.url_
 
> *With the default "USE DDE" Unchecked*
 
> What shows up in the FireFox browser is the same. The URL Box changes to
> the below line:
> file:///c:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Wes/Desktop/Google%20no%20DDE%20w%20html.url


> What am I doing wrong?

> Thanks!!
> Wes