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delete short cut

Nov 18, 2003 4:20PM PST

windows 98 se I have a short cut that i cannot delete www.naturalessentials.com/hytrin.htm the message says file name is invalid or too long it wont even go into the recycle bin regards jim daniel

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Re:delete short cut
Nov 18, 2003 5:57PM PST

You would likely have no problem deleting the shortcut if you were using XP. And since this is the XP forum you might not get an answer but I would try renaming the shortcut to something simple and then delete it.

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Re:Re:delete short cut
Nov 19, 2003 12:52AM PST

Thank you Michael I will try that