Thread: More Vista trouble

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 !!