Microsoft Defender Update removes all the desktop shortcuts (opens in new tab)

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20 pointsXVincentX3y ago3 comments

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Completely bizarre but on par with Microsoft's usual level of QA. I actually right click on desktop > untick show icons.

After years of rearranging them every single time because a game went full screen or a remote desktop session moved them all around I just gave up. Everything is in the start menu now.

Dutchie20203y ago

Unfortunately this also cleared out all .lnk shortcuts in the Start Menu folder. Will be interesting to see if Microsoft can restore all removed shortcuts and other files as promised.

XVincentXOP3y ago

They can up to a certain point. MSFT Defender logs has some info with regards what has been deleted, but some other information are missing (such as command line parameters associated with the lnk file)

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