shortcuts not visible

[Malu]

Hi,

Yes a lot of posts from me but well...it's a new computer and a new install so I have a lots of new troubleshooting I've never had before. Also I just switched from Windows 2000.

Anyway just now I have found that even though I have a lot of shortcuts such as "pictures" "movies" "downloads" etc on my desktop, when I click "save as" when I'm downloading something and I browse to desktop, none of the shortcuts show up.

This is strange......

 

[jlanka]

Remember, shortcuts can show up on your desktop from both the

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop

and the

C:\Documents and Settings\<b><i>YourUsername</i></b>\Desktop

When you save something like that you're most likely going to YourUsername.

Maybe thats the problem?

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

 

[Malu]

Thanks for your reply jlanka. Yes I did have the shortcuts in my User Profile but I tried moving them and the problem stays the same.

Some more info on the problem:

-I do have Service Pack 1 and all updates installed for WinXP

-Folders do show up along with My Computer and the like. Shortcuts do not show up.

-Shortcuts do show up when I am installing a program and browsing to the location I want to install it. This led me to believe that perhaps the problem was a setting in IE 6. However I am now using Opera 7 and I can't see shortcuts using it to download either.

Any ideas?