No broken links so far today. I removed a Skype add on yesterday and all redone links were made by copying existing ones that had never broken.
I am going to make a few new ones and see if these survive. If they do, the culprit would appear to be Skype(?). Very odd.
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A new link just broke. No warning. New information, a good way to tell is that the actual website icon disappears to be replaced with the bog standard ie icon.
But, I had made a full backup copy(in my user name library as well - different folder) and the backup works fine, copied back and now ok. Looks like something is corrupt within IE10?
I'm not an IE user. But it sounds like IE may be periodically scanning to see what favorites it has. I'm just guessing it does this and something bad happens during the scan. But that's pure speculation on my part.
I found something similar for IE 7
Hyperlinks not working sometimes in IE favorites | Wilders Security Forums
Ok, my latest suspect is CCLEANER mentioned in one of those posts. I just ran it and immediately one of my links broke!
I updated the software to a newer version and will now monitor what actually occurs straight after when I run it. Will give an update when I have some more info. Thanks for all help so far.
Are you using CCEnhancer with CCleaner?
Maybe we can use Process Monitor mentioned in post #8... if you want to know if it is CCleaner or if CCleaner triggers some other app to make the change. If you can force it to happen in a repeatable manner, then we probably don't need a script.
No. Should I be?
I will see if the new CCLEANER causes this. Trying to find ways to break the linksMaybe we can use Process Monitor mentioned in post #8... if you want to know if it is CCleaner or if CCleaner triggers some other app to make the change. If you can force it to happen in a repeatable manner, then we probably don't need a script.Will update in a few days.
As its name implies, CCEnhancer enhances or adds additional levels of cleaning to CCleaner. These enhancements can be setup by the user. From what I've read, the user can get the settings wrong and cause weird things to happen. Hence my asking if you were using CCEnhancer.
And after this issue is solved, you can use CCEnhancer if you want. I've never used CCEnhancer, so I'm not recommending it or speaking out against it. I was just checking to see if settings within that app could have been the cause of your issue.
A new piece of info. I haven't even run CCLEANER and one of the usual links broke.
I copied in from the backup lib - which works. When pasting the new one, whether overwriting or deleting and adding, it doesn't work, still broken.
Basically a working link in the backup lib in my user directory, doesn't work when copied to Favourites library.
Does that help in potential diagnostic? I suspect now that my USER is corrupted somehow.
And more! I created a complete Favourites copy. The link works in there and when I went back to Favourites original, the link started working again! I give up, it's a head banger.
Good to know that CCleaner is not the issue.
Wait - how did you determine that it works?
Did you double click on that shortcut while it was in he backup lib?
Or did you open/check it in notepad?
If you double clicked on it...
...then it could have been changed right then
...before you copied it to your favorites.
If you want to create a new user profile - but the issue might start happening again since we don't know the app that is causing this.
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