Cannot Create Shortcut, Cannot Find App, Cannot Open App

[de-facto]

At the risk of receiving a good verbal drubbing, the issue is that, having downloaded and installed msysGit 1.9.5 Preview20150319.exe, it ceased to work after two days. The Desktop icon disappeared, but the app appeared to exist, from the Windows File icon and the label that read 'msysGit'. I attempted to open the app, there was a quick flash of the command prompt then - nothing.

I removed all the files and re-installed the app, but this time, after completing the installation, msysGit, from the command shell, informed me of several available options; one of which, was to create a shortcut using '/share/msysGit/add-shortcut.tcl'. Options for this shortcut were given, along with abbreviations. I could not implement a shortcut using either the long form, or any of the abbreviations. So, when, out of frustration, I closed the command shell, I could not find the app to implement a Windows shortcut.

I have re-installed msysGit twice, with the same issue present. The only change made to Windows 10, prior to the occurrence of the issue, was an installation of a cross-platform (android-iOS) file transfer app, which, as yet, has not presented any problems.

Searches online have thrown up one possible reason why a shortcut cannot be created (which would eliminate the other problems), which is that the registry needs to be edited, but here, there is another problem. Microsoft have changed the registry that was 'UserChoice' on the path,
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts, to something else that only a systems administrator can understand. So, trying to reslove this issue is not as simple as one would like it to be.

Has anyone come across the main problem and is there a solution? I would be grateful for any and all assistance.

Regards,

[dscho]

I guess that you are not really looking for msysGit (which is the now-retired development environment that developers used to develop Git for Windows), but rather for Git for Windows itself? I would gladly welcome you as new contributor, of course, but something tells me that you only want to use Git, not to develop it. Correct?

[de-facto]

Hello Johannes,
thank you for your reply. I recently (yesterday) established that I should be using Git for Windows, which I have now installed - it works as expected.
You are correct - l require the Linux-style command line for convenience. I would like to learn Git and contribute to the tremendous work you and your community are able to do, but I do not know much about Git, other than downloading files as needed for projects (when I started to learn web design). 
I am not a web designer, nor am I a programmer/coder, though, I am teaching myself Python. I am an individual very interested in computer science, who would like to participate professionally. I am also much older than the market requires for first-timers, in any field.
Thank you for considering opening the doors to me as a contributor; maybe some day soon I will be able to accept your invitation.
Kind regards,
Dennis

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On Tue, 29 Dec, 2015 at 15:33, Johannes Schindelinnotifications@github.com wrote:
I guess that you are not really looking for msysGit (which is the now-retired development environment that developers used to develop Git for Windows), but rather for Git for Windows itself? I would gladly welcome you as new contributor, of course, but something tells me that you only want to use Git, not to develop it. Correct?

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