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05-25-2004, 04:08 PM
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Supergeek in training
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Shortcut won't work
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
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05-25-2004, 04:11 PM
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Lest we forget
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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.
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05-25-2004, 04:12 PM
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The executable already showed up in the search box. I dragged that and made a dublicate shortcut.
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05-25-2004, 04:17 PM
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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.
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05-25-2004, 04:41 PM
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Ok, just going to do that now.
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05-25-2004, 04:42 PM
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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" Last edited by Gizmo; 05-25-2004 at 04:45 PM. |
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05-25-2004, 05:01 PM
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Lest we forget
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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.
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05-25-2004, 05:26 PM
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Ok, sorry for that.
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