How To Delete The Dead Shortcuts In Windows Vista

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Trouble:

how to remove all the dead shortcuts of all those programs uninstalled from computer but some dead or unlinked shortcuts remain there on computer.



Microsoft has added a small utility in windows server 2003 resource kit, the small program name is ChkLnks.exe and it works not only on windows 2003 but on xp, vista and windows 7 also. With this small utility you can remove the dead shortcuts from your computer.



Lets see how to find and eliminate the dead shortcuts from you computer with ChkLnks.exe


Fix:

Firstly download the utility from here and run the executable ChkLnks.exe, you will see screen like the one shown below



now check the dead links found and click finish to remove them.