Re: Deleting 1k Shortcut Takes forever..?

Shortcut to what ??

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"Andrew" <> wrote in message
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> When deleting a shortcut in Vista Home, Get a Dialog box saying,
> Calculating time..
> Surely it doesn't need to decide how much time it will take to Del a
> <1k shortcut..?
>
> It just sits there, with the pretty bar doing its animation..!
>
> Any Vista Guru's out there know why and how to resolve...?
>
> Any feedback and/or similar problems would be appreciated.
> Thanx
>
>

I wish you Good Luck.

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"Andrew" <> wrote in message
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> What difference does that make..?
> A shortcut to an icon.. or a text document.. or a movie.. ? its only a
> shortcut.
> a ' .LNK ' file size 861bytes.
> Don't want to delete the file at the end of the link..!
> Surely that's the Idea of having a shortcut. Ease of access to files
> in other folders etc.
>
>
> Sorry if sound a bit tetchy, just noticed it does same thing when
> moving a shortcut or file to another folder.
>
> Thank 4 Yr Fb Peter.
> A.
>
> "Peter Foldes" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
> | Shortcut to what ??
> |
> | --
> | Peter
> |
> | Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
> | Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be
> acknowledged.
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> | "Andrew" <> wrote in message
> | news:...
> | > When deleting a shortcut in Vista Home, Get a Dialog box saying,
> | > Calculating time..
> | > Surely it doesn't need to decide how much time it will take to Del
> a
> | > <1k shortcut..?
> | >
> | > It just sits there, with the pretty bar doing its animation..!
> | >
> | > Any Vista Guru's out there know why and how to resolve...?
> | >
> | > Any feedback and/or similar problems would be appreciated.
> | > Thanx
> | >
> | >
> |
>
>

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:51:37 -0000, "Andrew"
<> wrote:

>What difference does that make..?
>A shortcut to an icon.. or a text document.. or a movie.. ? its only a
>shortcut.
>a ' .LNK ' file size 861bytes.
>Don't want to delete the file at the end of the link..!
>Surely that's the Idea of having a shortcut. Ease of access to files
>in other folders etc.
>
>
>Sorry if sound a bit tetchy, just noticed it does same thing when
>moving a shortcut or file to another folder.

You might want to empty the recycle bin. Sometimes that helps with
long delete cycles.

There's also an icon cache you can delete that will be automatically
recreated when you reboot. I don't have a pointer off hand but you can
google "icon cache" and "vista" and likely find it.