How to Bulk Repair Broken Shortcuts or Clean Them in Windows
In prolonged usage we install many applications on our system that we may or may not be using at later stages. To ease the use of these application we can select to create desktop shortcuts to these installed application.
These shortcuts not only help us quick launch these applications but also in remembering their existence.
With a huge number of activities performed on our system daily, it is possible sometimes that some of these shortcuts loose their link to the original executable file. Fixing this problem manually is easy but only when we discover a shortcut to be broken.
This task becomes tedious when has to be done for dozens of such shortcuts.
Broken Shortcut Fixer is a small portable freeware application that can automatically perform this task for you. It is extremely easy to use with simple user interface.
To make this application work you have to select a drive on which you want to search for broken shortcuts. Once the location is selected, the task can be easily performed by clicking on Scan Shortcuts.You can ignore remote shortcuts if you are not connected to network.
Broken Shortcut Fixer tries to resolve shortcuts using the windows link resolve method, If it fails to do so there is a possibility that the application does not exist anymore and the shortcut is reported as broken in the search result.
These shortcut files can be opened in explorer so that they can be verified. These can be selected and cleaned with the delete option.
This application is very handy and efficient. It even found out broken shortcuts after system was cleaned by CCleaner. Hence it can also be use with CCleaner to keep system totally clean of junk files.
Download Broken Shortcut Fixer (1.02MB)
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