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Yeah, I know the guide says you should not install the optional driver updates, but there are more optional updates out there.
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"I would not replace any drivers given by the installer or optional Updates unless performance problems point to that specfic driver. We can help you troubleshoot these issues."
I just wanted to make sure his opinion on 'optional updates' was the same as his opinion on optional driver updates. As I had a feeling this might be the case.
quote: "understanding it and following the guide is another matter entirely"
Yeah, but like I said, I did this before he did post this guide. So when I read the guide, I could no longer follow it. I wanted to wait reinstalling another time, until the problem reoccurred, since I thought the reinstall might have fixed it already, even though it was installed before gregrocker posted his guide. (see:desktop integritylevel keeps dropping to 'low')
I think I'll mark this tread as solved: the problem persists but I think you guys gave me enough suggestions to look at. From now on I'll only reply if I found the cause and/or solved the problem.
Thanks again.
*edit*
I just found out that this happens when I open internet explorer. And it happends to some shortcuts but not all of them: adobe reader is still opened right away, but for example my firefox shortcut is effected.
This explains why it happened on such a irregular basis: I rarely use internet explorer!
*edit2*
All shortcuts that have a modifiable target showing in properties are effected. The adobe reader shortcut is not effected even when I run icacls d:\desktop /setintegritylevel L
Apparently shortcuts that are not showing the full path to the program: target="Adobe REader X (10.1.4)" grayed out, in stead of "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 10.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe", the 'find target' button is grayed out on such shortcuts. If I send "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 10.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" to the desktop manually, then this shortcut is affected.
Apparently this type of 'unchangeable' shortcuts is marked as 'safe'.
*edit3*
interesting, de-installing internet explorer 9 and using internet explorer 8 works as a workaround: the problem is in ie9 apparently.
*edit4* I installed ie9 form the ms site instead of win updates and: same problem :O
Last edited by foe; 08 Sep 2012 at 07:13.