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All shortcuts point to the wrong Program Files folder
Hi,
Today I was asked to help in a problem with shortcuts in Windows 7 which pointed to the wrong non-existing location. The issue refers too all shortcuts connected with the Program Files folder.
As I didn't know what is the issue the first idea was to create a completely new profile (i.e. user account) to check if the problem arises there as well.
Fortunately the new profile/account was correct, all links were fine. It meant the problem was connected only with the first profile. That's why I decided to recreate the IconCache.db file by removing it and restarting the machine. Unfortunately it didn't help.
The system itself is a Polish edition of Windows 7 and because it works on 64-bit platform there are 2 folders for applications:
a) (for 32-bit apps) "c:\Program Files"
b) (for 64-bit apps) "c:\Pliki programów (x64)"
Almost all programs are installed in b) but all corrupted links pointed to "c:\Program Files (x64)" instead of "c:\Pliki programów (x64)". Somehow the links contained the English name ("c:\Program Files (x64)") instead of Polish one ("c:\Pliki programów (x64)"). This was the reason they didn't work.
Do you have any idea what could happen and how to fix it ?
Thank you for help,
rafi