Do you know? Windows 8 contains a similar bug to Vista

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To see the bug, follow these steps:

1. Go to the desktop,

2. Right Click on the desktop and make new shortcut,

3. On the Make Shortcut dialog, press cancel,

4. Right Click again, you will see a new menu: Undo New CTRL+Z
Screenshot (2).png

5. Click the Undo New and it will show:
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Just click the skip button, then right click the desktop and you'll find Redo New CTRL+ Y.
If you click the redo button, the New Shortcut will come back but if you look in the properties, you can't set the Target and Start in form. So the shortcut is useless.

As I remember, Windows 7 don't contain this bug.
 

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I'll try this... Very interesting...
 

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"Do you know? Windows 8 contains a similar bug to Vista " Very true, both are riddled with problems ;-) Should we call 8 the new vista? or is that a slam against Vista?;)
 

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It's an insult to Vista.

I still have Vista installed - good os.
 

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vista is a cheap, outdated, sloppy lady of the night of an operating system to tarnish the Windows brand. :)

Huh, this doesn't seem to be a major issue, but interesting. I guess this bug was overlooked during development, as this is something one would REALLY need to look for.
 

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I've discovered a workaround for this bug. Just, like, don't do that.
 

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vista is a cheap, outdated, sloppy lady of the night of an operating system to tarnish the Windows brand. :)

Huh, this doesn't seem to be a major issue, but interesting. I guess this bug was overlooked during development, as this is something one would REALLY need to look for.
Hey Cokey, don't tarnish the "grande old dame"!

Nothing wrong with Vista with correct drivers and right amount of RAM. Add a SATA3 SSD HD, decent graphics card and CPU, and it flies. I'm still annoyed I didn't really get my money's worth out of Vista.
 

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Vista is just fine.

Better in many ways than win8.
 

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Vista became the easy target of everyone who had a bone to pick with MS.

I recently restored it on my desktop (to experiment with a Win8 upgrade) and was reminded of how much I really liked using it. I hadn't run it on my current PC (was on a PC two versions back), and was amazed at how fast it runs -- given a multi-core processor and high-speed RAM.
 

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I wouldn't call this a bug. It's behaving exactly as it's supposed to. When you cancel the shortcut creation, it deletes the link as it should. This is why you get the error about not finding the file to delete from Undo. Undo thinks a create operation occurred and it tries to undo it, but the cancel deleted the file before it had a chance to undo it.

Redoing it creates the empty shortcut, and empty shortcuts can't have their targets set. This is just one of those things that happen in complex systems, some operations conflict with others. I think you're trying too hard to find bugs.
 

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I wouldn't call this a bug. It's behaving exactly as it's supposed to. When you cancel the shortcut creation, it deletes the link as it should. This is why you get the error about not finding the file to delete from Undo. Undo thinks a create operation occurred and it tries to undo it, but the cancel deleted the file before it had a chance to undo it.

Redoing it creates the empty shortcut, and empty shortcuts can't have their targets set. This is just one of those things that happen in complex systems, some operations conflict with others. I think you're trying too hard to find bugs.

Well then why did Explorer thinks a shortcut has been created, that causes the Undo New option is displayed?
 

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Explorer thinks a shortcut was created because a shortcut WAS created. Clicking cancel deletes it though.
 

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I loved Vista, it's still the fastest OS I have ever used.
Back in the Day,,,it was great if you had a system with High enough Specs that would just let it run flat-out.
I'm even thinking of re-installing it & breathing some life back into the old girl
I still prefer it to 7 & 8 & its only real problem is that it's a memory Hog, but you can sort that out easy enough.
You all should be thankful for Vista because that is where Win 7 & 8 started out.
 

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I loved Vista, it's still the fastest OS I have ever used.
Back in the Day,,,it was great if you had a system with High enough Specs that would just let it run flat-out.
I'm even thinking of re-installing it & breathing some life back into the old girl
I still prefer it to 7 & 8 & its only real problem is that it's a memory Hog, but you can sort that out easy enough.
You all should be thankful for Vista because that is where Win 7 & 8 started out.

I must agree, if there is no vista, 7 & 8 will just look like the outdated XP.
Before upgrade to W8, my laptop which is using W7 was modded to look like Vista, I just like the Vista-7 Blend.
 

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Geez, vista looked just like a warmed over, glassy xp that looked particularly well when it stopped responding. At least you had a nice "vista" when that happened! I don't like the how it was a such a resource hog, ONLY to run the OS. But then again, it does go to think that without vista, we might not have had ridiculously dirt cheap RAM, dual core standards, and other higher end hardware being standard. The thing is now not needing all that to run Windows now, it's more or less about having actual things that require that hardware such as gaming and other image rendering fun stuff.
 

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