Free Dead Shortcut Remover

Enverex

Does anyone know of any free software (free as in free, not free as in 30 day trial) that will scan your PC for dead shortcuts and delete them all? (The same feature that is in Ace Utilities and TweakXP I beleive).

GHoosdum

I think that the "repair icons" function in the TweakUI powertoy may do this as well, but I'm not entirely certain.

Enverex

Na, that just rebuilds the icon images in memory and the cache and such for when they get corrupted for some reason.

Shorty

Give me some time over the weekend and Il write you one

Perfect little project for my C# project requirements

Enverex

Heh, cheers Shorty, although if it deletes most of my Hard-Drive's contents or tells me to register before it will work then I'm going to bite you.

ryko

does google not work for you??? this was the 2nd link after i typed in "dead link."

anyway i couldn't remeber the name of the stuff i used before but i found it....

http://www.aignes.com/deadlink.htm

it works very well, and it's nice and simple.

Enverex

ryko wrote:

does google not work for you??? this was the 2nd link after i typed in "dead link."

anyway i couldn't remeber the name of the stuff i used before but i found it....

http://www.aignes.com/deadlink.htm

it works very well, and it's nice and simple.

Erm, I'm talking about Windows file shortcuts, not browser favorites...

ryko

my bad....

try this...

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download414.html

it has a shortcut cleaner, plus many other useful tools...i use it all of the time. it is part of the freeware cocktail that goes on all of my pcs.