From: Gary Britt 

You are correct.  I must have been thinking of Win2K or Win98.  I must have
created my XP control panel shortcut the old fashioned way by going to
control.exe and right clicking and telling it send shortcut to desktop. 
The create shortcut option is available if you right click on the control
panel icon in "My Computer" which would work also.  Either of
those two ways work reliably every time, and you identified a third way. 
So again the guys an idiot.

The parts you quoted in his message wasn't the anti-USA euro-trash snobbery.
  It was the part about USA currency sliding to 3rd World bannana republic
levels that was the Euro-Trash snobbery.  A totally gratuitous and
irrelevant to his article side remark.

The high cost of high tech in Europe is related no doubt to the economic
policies that make Europe made high tech so expensive and importers of low
cost USA goods have no reason not to price their goods in line with the
local market conditions established by the inefficient European high tax
socialist welfare economic models.

On the other hand Americans get tired of subsidizing Canada's and Europes
drug costs, by paying more here in America to subsidize the government
price fixing that goes on in the rest of the world.

Gary

Dave Ings wrote:
> "Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
> news:45d476e6{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> anti-USA euro-trash snobbery into his review.
>
> I didn't read it as anti-USA (are being too sensitive?) I read it as a
> European consumer complaining about yet another instance of hi-tech prices
> being far higher in Europe than in the United States.
>
>> Anyone who can't figure out how to right click on control panel in the
>> start menu and select create shortcut or send to desktop as shortcut isn't
>> worth listening to.
>
> On my two XP installations these entries don't appear on the context menu.
> Mind you ctrl-LMB drag to desktop works just fine to create a shortcut to
> the control panel.

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