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Recently reinstalled Windows. When I did the restore it but back all of my
desktop shortcuts and items that were on the Start/Programs menus even
though many of them are no longer on the machine. Is there a program that
will hunt for those "dead end" shortcuts and menu items & delete them?

Thanks in advance... Bob

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Empty Temp Folders is free and has an option that searches for Broken
shortcuts and allows you to delete them.

Empty Temp Folders
http://www.danish-shareware.dk/soft/emptemp/index.html

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Bob Newman <bob.newman@cox.net> hunted and pecked:
> Recently reinstalled Windows. When I did the restore it but back all of
> my desktop shortcuts and items that were on the Start/Programs menus even
> though many of them are no longer on the machine. Is there a program that
> will hunt for those "dead end" shortcuts and menu items & delete them?
>
> Thanks in advance... Bob

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On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 01:51:23 -0400, "Bob Newman" <bob.newman@cox.net>

>Recently reinstalled Windows. When I did the restore it but back all of my
>desktop shortcuts and items that were on the Start/Programs menus even
>though many of them are no longer on the machine. Is there a program that
>will hunt for those "dead end" shortcuts and menu items & delete them?

Check at www.nirsoft.net - there are many excellent utilities there,
and one is a shortcut manager.

Don't go to nirsoft. com by mistake (it's a domain-squatter, and looks
like it may malware your PC)

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