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by sonnaccino

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I have a user who's experiencing a problem in Windows 98. She would like to create shortcuts to certain docs on her desktop and no matter how we create them, they don't work. We can open say Excel and then open the file, but the shortcuts give the error "not a win32 application." We've tried the right-drag, and even saving the file to the desktop but neither works.

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by mehul

I haven't used win98 for years but for win2000 I was having the same problem for .asp files. so I right clicked the shortcut from the desktop>properties>general and there is a place where you can change the associated application for this file. change it to where the program associated w/ the file is located. for example for word C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\WINWORD.EXE . c if this works...

by sonnaccino

I had tried that earlier, but I think it was pointing to the wrong executable and I didn't catch it. I just took another look and got it changed and working. Thanks.

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