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Shortcuts change path and becomes corrupt after each restart
Dear Community,
I have been having a problem these last 6 months and it's starting to get to me. I've roamed the web for someone who've had similar issues, but no success. I apologize if this issue have been addressed before, and if it has, I'd appreciate a link to the solution.
Every time I restart my computer, all shortcuts on my desktop and in the start menu change their path to disk F: (1TB, WD1002FAEX) , although the software is located on disk C: (120GB SSD, KINGSTON). The only thing that is changed in the target-path is that the C: is replaced by F:.
As a background notice I' ll inform you that I earlier on had the Windows 7 home premium 64-bit on my 1TB hard disk. When I bought the SSD, I used my windows cd to format it and reinstalled it on my C:. No problems the first months of use, then suddenly one day I had this issue and been bothered by it ever since.
Called microsoft and they just told me to delete and reinstall everything, but I was hoping to avoid that as my both my hard disks are almost full, so I would have needed to buy a new one to do this.
Shortcut to folders do not have the same problems, and my makeshift solution have been to use shortcuts to the folders, and then open the softwares directly through the .exe files. That is becoming increasingly tiresome though, so I would be grateful for some assistance.
Kind regards Jonas
From earlier posts I gathered that having a log file from Process monitor may assist in the aid, so I've attached a file. I presume this program cannot monitor things that occur during restart of the OS, so I don't know if it's of much use. Thought I attach it anyway. It's logging a failed attempt of using a start menu shortcut to open google chrome.
Last edited by them0narch; 16 Jul 2015 at 09:18. Reason: forgot attachment