# Short cut stops reworking **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [July 8, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/short-cut-stops-reworking/2017 "2010-07-08T23:41:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@Henry](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Henry)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/short-cut-stops-reworking/2017/1 "2010-07-08T23:41:41Z")
One of the ignition’s features is that it creates a desktop short cut when it successfully starts up. However, the short cut stops working after a few days and reports this error. If I connect again using the IP address, it will solve the problem but only for a short period of time. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/1X/015d48704e80213dc3ee76734a1189809ca222c2.PNG) ---
**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/short-cut-stops-reworking/2017/2 "2010-07-09T13:55:24Z")
Can you post the contents of the cache file it is trying to load? ---
**Author:** ![nathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nathan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nathan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/short-cut-stops-reworking/2017/3 "2010-07-12T19:02:31Z")
The Java shortcuts seem to be less reliable than using a Windows (web browser) shortcut as described [here](http://www.inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=4919&p=11207&hilit=launchfs%2FPROJECT.jnlp#p11207). ---
**Author:** ![Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@Henry](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Henry)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/short-cut-stops-reworking/2017/4 "2010-07-14T20:34:05Z")
I hope this is what you are looking for. Here is the error on another system and the cache file. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/1X/aa01ebfd4c49d398c399ca5e76a394a8036182b1.PNG) ---
**Author:** ![Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@Henry](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Henry)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/short-cut-stops-reworking/2017/5 "2010-07-14T20:34:53Z")
Cache file ---
**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/short-cut-stops-reworking/2017/6 "2010-07-16T21:09:41Z")
It is true that the Java web-start based shortcuts aren’t the greatest. I’ve never seen them simply stop working, however. There must by something awry with your Java cache on that machine. Have you updated Java to the most recent version? ---
**Author:** ![Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@Henry](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Henry)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/short-cut-stops-reworking/2017/7 "2010-07-21T21:31:16Z")
The problem is on more than one system. The systems were running version 6\_U17 and U18. I updated them to 20 and 21 and now the short cut doesn’t get created at all. ---
**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/short-cut-stops-reworking/2017/8 "2010-07-22T14:45:56Z")
Try clearing out your Java cache. You can do this through the control panel or run the command “[tt]javaws -uninstall[/tt]” Also, check the setting “shortcut creation” settings in the java control panel. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/1X/61185ee42914e4758242b1dc7126ead5416e76ec.PNG)