Cannot Change Shortcut Target

cavedesian · #1 02-06-2009, 09:32 PM

As the title may suggest, both Windows XP and Vista will not allow me to change the shortcut target of eqgame.exe to ["C:\Program Files\Everquest\eqgame.exe" patchme]. If I run eqgame.exe, it will tell me to open Everquest.exe. If I try and change the target of everquest.exe to ["C:\Program Files\Everquest\everquest.exe" patchme] nothing happens.

Any thoughts on how to get around this?

cavedesian · #2 02-07-2009, 06:54 PM

no one has even viewed my plea :(
all i wanna do is camp the glowing black stone and jboots until i starve to death, just like when i was fifteen

please help me lose my soul again

Angelox · #3 02-07-2009, 07:12 PM

Make sure you have the the right permissions for that - you probably need administrator permissions.

cavedesian · #4 02-08-2009, 01:25 AM

I am the administrator... it won't let me do it because it says the target does not exist.

Sakrateri · #5 02-08-2009, 05:15 AM

Are you sure it is the eqgame.exe you are trying to change and not the Everquest.exe? Did you go into your Everquest directory and create a shortcut to desktop from your eqgame.exe?

Ismaris · #6 04-21-2009, 09:00 AM

Bump. I am getting this same error. I shortcut my eqgame.exe just like the help information here says, and then when I try to launch it (administrator or otherwise) it says "Please launch everquest.exe".

No information on this?

Ismaris · #7 04-21-2009, 09:07 AM

Just found out a fix. right-click your icon and go to properties. at the end of the "target" field, type patchme -w. that fixed it for me.