Problem with Vista and Internet Explorer 7 no saving URLs via Drag

This sounds like a very silly question - but I think Vista broke something
(maybe by design) or perhaps something is wrong with my installation.


When dragging a url from the address bar in the past (to the desktop for
example) it would create an internet shortcut. I could then later click
these and the web page would open, or drag and drop them back into an open IE
and the itnernet explorer would navigate to them, etc. When doing a file
properties on them, they would show as a web document of extension .url - .



After installing Vista Ultimate and using it I now see that when I do this a
url file is created - but its different and if I double click on it it does
not work - and the icon for th efile is blank -(pure white) - and it no
longer shows as a web document when I look at its properties. It did save
the title of the web page as the title of the document - but thats all. There
is nothing in the url box under details and no description or notes.

If I go to the file afterwards and click on properties and then details and
manually paste in the url into details - then the file will work when double
clicking, etc. but its still different because its not a web document.

Something seems very broken because internet explorer can not save the web
page's proper information as a internet shortcut when dragging the url from
the address bar.

Is this normal bahvior with Vista now, or is something broke? If something
is broke - do you know how to fix it?

Please help -

PBG

Works for me when I just drag and drop the little IE icon at the left of the URL
(not the actual URL itself).

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"PBF" <> wrote in message
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> This sounds like a very silly question - but I think Vista broke something
> (maybe by design) or perhaps something is wrong with my installation.
>
>
> When dragging a url from the address bar in the past (to the desktop for
> example) it would create an internet shortcut. I could then later click
> these and the web page would open, or drag and drop them back into an open IE
> and the itnernet explorer would navigate to them, etc. When doing a file
> properties on them, they would show as a web document of extension .url - .
>
>
>
> After installing Vista Ultimate and using it I now see that when I do this a
> url file is created - but its different and if I double click on it it does
> not work - and the icon for th efile is blank -(pure white) - and it no
> longer shows as a web document when I look at its properties. It did save
> the title of the web page as the title of the document - but thats all. There
> is nothing in the url box under details and no description or notes.
>
> If I go to the file afterwards and click on properties and then details and
> manually paste in the url into details - then the file will work when double
> clicking, etc. but its still different because its not a web document.
>
> Something seems very broken because internet explorer can not save the web
> page's proper information as a internet shortcut when dragging the url from
> the address bar.
>
> Is this normal bahvior with Vista now, or is something broke? If something
> is broke - do you know how to fix it?
>
> Please help -
>
> PBG
>
>
>