Altap Salamander Support Forums

Windows Shortcuts show up with a default icon that is both ugly and not representative of a shortcut.

Please address this if possible.

Great product! This is the best file manager in the history of software. Please keep up the amazing work.

Please supply a screenshot so we all can see what you mean.
On my system are all shortcuts fine - no ugly icons.
Check Options > Configuraion > Drives > Dialog Box Options :: [x] Use simple icons

Ok. I dug into this and I found out they are actually start menu shortcuts, not regular shortcuts.

And by 'start menu shortcuts' I mean shortcuts that are created when you create a shortcut in the classic start menu via drag and drop shortcut creation. For example, right-click drag an explorer folder onto the start menu and create a short cut. When you hover over the newly created shortcut in the start menu, it will expand the menu into the subfolders.

When browsing in Altap, these types of shortcuts behave like regular folders (only with a default icon) containing a desktop.ini file and a target.ink shortcut file.

Are you using VISTA? As the VISTA Support is not yer fully finished.
On my XP Pro system are such problems not visible.
(I thought it might be something with the @ in the shortcut)

Hi matiasnino,

Thank you. I know the type of symbolicly linked folders you describe, but I did not know of any way to create them.

This construct, consisting of a directory, containing a desktop.ini file and a target.lnk file, forms an entity which is treated by windows explorer as a virtual folder, somewhat like Desktop, Start Menu, My Computer ..., some of these do relate to one or more directories, others don't.

Servant Salamander does not yet (see ALTAP Salamander Roadmap) support folders, but only directories. That's why it shows you the file system's view of your directory link, not the virtual folder view, much alike when you look at the directory whose path is stored in the DESKTOP environment variable (usually stored in your user profile by the name of Desktop. This directory stores user specific files which Explorer shows on your Desktop. It does, however contain only part of the items on your desktop. More items are stored in a similar folder in the All Users profile, and yet others are stored in the Registry. From these sources, Explorer builds a virtual folder which it then displays to you.

Concerning the folder link, you may navigate to it's destinaton within Altap Salamander by executing the target.lnk shortcut. You may not easily return to the link's parent folder except by using the back function in Salamanders history (Alt+Arrow left).