I received a message about not submitting the “desktop shortcut” files. What does this mean?

When you download and install the Pesticide Reporting Service Bureau software, it creates an icon on your desktop. This is a “shortcut” to the actual program, placed there for your convenience in accessing the program, just like many of your other desktop icons. It is important to remember that these icons are not the actual programs or data files. If you attach the shortcut to your submission, you are not attaching the data files we need — you are attaching a set of directions to your computer for how to find the data files or program. If you look at the list of files attached to your submission and you see any whose names end in .lnk, then you have attached a shortcut. See Where are the report files and the identity.txt file located on my computer? for the likely location of the files you need to submit.