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Originally Posted by Lucy Locket Hi
It is an old programme, but i've been using it on this computer for ages, last used it a few weeks ago, so can't understand why it has suddenly stopped working. |
Probably messed up a shortcut somewhere:
You need to know the name of the application and/or the manufacturer (Eg Sage, Line50)
go to "My Computer", double click on "Local Disk ( C: )", double click on the folder "Program Files", find the folder that should contain the application you want (eg "Sage") and then find the program name with a ".exe" extrension (eg "line50.exe") {The '.exe' will only show if 'hide known extensions' is un-ticked from the view options under the 'view' menu}
If you can double click on this and it works, then simply use the right hand mouse button to drag it to the desktop and "create a shortcut here" (r-click and re-name it to something more intuative)
If you can't find it in the "program files" folder, the folder may just be in the root ( C: ).
If double clicking on the .exe dosn't work, then you probably need to set some variables for it to work properly: look for another file like "start" or with the same name as the EXE, except with a ".bat" extension. Try double clicking on this. {<- make sure you are in the correct folder - lots of programs use this name/method and you could re-install something by accident and loose some settings}