Paul A. Rubin wrote:
On my XP Home box, every program I've tested that uses the Windows file open dialog can follow a shortcut (.lnk) to a directory. So either something is amiss with your system, or maybe you have some registry setting mucking things up.
If I remember correctly, there is indeed some special registry setting for shortcuts and I may have modified things there :) I'll have a look and it and see whether I can fix the LyX dialogs.
Joost
