Why Do Shortcuts Change to Network Addresses?

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jim evans

This has been happening as long as I've used XP pro. Suddenly, for
reasons I've never figured out, some of my desktop shortcuts to
folders suddenly change from local addresses to network addresses. For
example:
C:\Documents and Settings will change to
\\JimsComputer\c\Documents and Settings.

Does anyone know why this happens and how I can stop it.

jim
 
jim said:
This has been happening as long as I've used XP pro. Suddenly, for
reasons I've never figured out, some of my desktop shortcuts to
folders suddenly change from local addresses to network addresses.
For example:
C:\Documents and Settings will change to
\\JimsComputer\c\Documents and Settings.

Does anyone know why this happens and how I can stop it.
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I have never seen it happen.

Are you a member of a domain? Is this a domain account and not a local
account?
 
It could be that you have created a file sharing of your folders or your
entire system over the internal network or WAN. However, you should
have two sets of names: <1> as seen by your system and <2> as likely to
be seen over the network. For example, my shared Folder (in all users
account} is seen twice when I view it using windows explorer.

hth
 
I have never seen it happen.

Are you a member of a domain? Is this a domain account and not a local
account?
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No, I'm not a member of a domain. I don't know what a domain account
is.

This is a home network with two XP pro computers. When the shortcut
is created it works properly. Then, unexpectedly, it changes to a
network address and quits working properly. For example, if I have
been running a batch file in the target folder, the file may behave as
if I am in a Windows directory folder. I can recreate the shortcut
and it will work properly again for an undetermined time. This
behavior happens of both computers. Both computers are shared at the
drive level. One of the shortcuts and it's target directory are
never accessed by the other computer.

jim
 
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