Unable to Add New Shortcut

[BS21133]

I am unable to add any new Shortcuts to Linkbar. It was working fine with the first 6 shortcuts I added.

Suddenly, when I right-click the Linkbar -- and select the New -> Shortcut option -- nothing happens. I am able to add a Separator, add a new Linkbar and edit/delete current shortcuts.

Very frustrating to have such a useful program suddenly become useless. Please help if you have ideas!

[ploens]

The following works on Windows 11 Pro, 22H2, build 22621.1555

1) Did you have a look at the settings file to see something out of the ordinary? Then delete that entry.

2) Right click an icon in your Linkbar. You get the Windows properties menu. Search for Linkbar in that menu. Open it and open item New where you see options to create a new shortcut, separator, linkbar. If you do not see the Linkbar item in the properties menu, combine Shift+right click.

[BS21133]

Thanks for the quick reply! I didn't know about the second option for creating a new shortcut (#2 in your message) and it worked. Prior to your message, I opened the Linkbar "as an Administrator" and that let me add new icons as well.

Do you need to reopen Linkbar on each Windows restart? There seems to be no way to add it to the Start Up menu. Any ideas?

[ploens]

From what I remember, there is a setting to install Linkbar for all users and start with Windows, but I am not sure if I remember this well. When you use UAC it is always good to consider All Users when installing an application if asked, unless you indeed only want to install for Admins. You could try to install Linkbar again on top of the current version, but make a Windows system restore point in advance.

Edit: did you try the following procedure: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-which-apps-run-automatically-at-startup-in-windows-9115d841-735e-488d-e749-9ba301d441e6#ID0EBD=Windows_10

[BS21133]

Thanks for the help!