Thread: More Vista trouble

Zhaylin: Press the Windows button and R. Type paint.exe . It should work. Deleting the shortcut only deletes the shortcut, no matter what program it is.

I've tried, and I'm told it doesn't exist.

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

I've tried, and I'm told it doesn't exist.

Then you didn't delete the shortcut, you deleted the .exe.

isn't that the whole point of this thread.....

deleting the shortcut deletes the shortcut & the target

In Vista maybe, I have no experience in it. In XP, it doesn't delete the target.

That's messed up if it deletes the entire thing instead of just the shortcut.

Call microsoft about this and complain to them.

Originally Posted by slayer

Call microsoft about this and complain to them.

Ha, yeah, that'll work
They won't talk to you unless you have a support contract

That won't get you anywhere...hehe.

If only they listened...

Originally Posted by Ynot

Ha, yeah, that'll work
They won't talk to you unless you have a support contract

Really?! Well I guess that terminates the old myth that windows is better than <insert free OS here> because you can expect company support... (ignoring redhat, suse, canonical, etc. for the moment)

Er, yeah, anyway...

No, Vista does not delete the target and the shortcut, and this has never happened to me when using it. You're obviously fucking something up really bad to do that, and if you think it's the fault of the OS and not you, you should go use OS X or something.

calm down
it's probably just a bug

No-one said it was done maliciously

*edit*
quick google certainly throws up a lot of problems with deleting shortcuts
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...ista+delete+sh

Most of those have to do with hard drive problems, or the desktop needing a simple refresh. It doesn't say anything about Vista removing programs when you delete the shortcut.

Also, to the person who is trying to say Paint got deleted, it didn't. There is no "paint.exe", it's called "mspaint.exe". Since you're on Vista, you can even use the live search bar in the start menu to search for any program with the word "paint" in it.

Originally Posted by Demon Parasite

No, Vista does not delete the target and the shortcut, and this has never happened to me when using it. You're obviously fucking something up really bad to do that, and if you think it's the fault of the OS and not you, you should go use OS X or something.

I'm confused, deleting a alias on OSX just deletes the alias

Originally Posted by Demon Parasite

Most of those have to do with hard drive problems, or the desktop needing a simple refresh. It doesn't say anything about Vista removing programs when you delete the shortcut.

Also, to the person who is trying to say Paint got deleted, it didn't. There is no "paint.exe", it's called "mspaint.exe". Since you're on Vista, you can even use the live search bar in the start menu to search for any program with the word "paint" in it.

If you spotlight paint.exe, mspaint.exe will show up in it

you can make a shortcut from paint.exe -> mspaint.exe
But whatever you do just don't delete it !!

Do people even use paint anymore? It's useless for everything.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Do people even use paint anymore? It's useless for everything.

It's good if you want to quickly save a print screen picture. Even then, snipping tools are better and automatically create and save images, so I personally have no use for it.

I usually don't even use paint to save print screen images anymore...

yay photoshop and easy image resizing!

No, crap computers stuck with Paint for small jobs!

The new paint in Windows 7 is definitely better, but still nothing compared to Photoshop

Never used Windows 7 extensivley either...I did see that the taskbar look secksayer though. But I still like Vista's setup more.

I haven't used Windows 7 yet, how much more like OSX is it than Vista?

Ugh, do all programs now use that annoying Office tabbed bar now?

Yes, Ninja. It's called Ribbon and it's mostly annoying.

I hate the Ribbon so much, I found it so hard to use when I'm on Windows. Grrr.

It also messes up some things in Windows 7, which is pretty annoying.