Shortcut won't work

[Gizmo]

We have Ad-aware 6.0 installed on our computer, and it was first installed onto my mum's desktop. In order for me to activate it on my desktop I have to search for it on the system and then double-click the application's icon. Now surely each time I wanted to run it I shouldn't have to search for it. So I dragged the application icon onto my desktop and then double-clicked it, it sayed the application didn't start properly because "A required .DLL file, AAWHELPER.DLL, was not found" any reason for this?

TIA

[ghost2003]

did you say you moved the executable out of the original folder? If you did that might be it. You would need to make a shortcut and use that.

[Gizmo]

The executable already showed up in the search box. I dragged that and made a dublicate shortcut.

[doctorgonzo]

Are you sure you have a shortcut on the desktop? It sounds like you dragged the EXE file itself onto the destop. Right-click on the icon, select "Properties," and make sure it is really a shortcut.

[Gizmo]

Ok, just going to do that now.

[Gizmo]

Yep, it's an application alright. But it still comes up with that error message.

**edit** When I clicked on Properties from the drop-down box, the description said "Ad-aware 6 core application"

[ghost2003]

Thats your problem, the application should always stay in its root folder(C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Ad-aware 6). Put it back and make a shortcut.

[Gizmo]

Ok, sorry for that.