Creating Irritating Shortcuts
Creating Irritating Shortcuts
I'm curious about whether updating or patching downloaded programs will add shortcuts to your desktop over time. Thanks
They originate from a specific location—typically your personal desktop folder. It’s not a shared network path, but rather a directory assigned to your account.
It's interesting, I have all the rights to add or remove programs, but when company servers send updates to every computer, no one except IT can change them. This leads to the issue of new shortcuts appearing on my desktop after an update, which forces me to reach out to IT to fix it, since I only have 90% admin access.
Whenever I try to remove a server, the system asks for "greater access level."
then these must be stored somewhere else, unless they're doing some really weird messing with the system. If it was in your user folder (you know, C:\Users\you\Desktop) you would be able to delete it.
Create a Linux Live USB. When you need to remove unwanted shortcuts, restart from the USB drive. Navigate to your Windows desktop folder and delete the files (use Shift+Del for immediate removal). After rebooting back into Windows, everything should work normally. This works only if the system hasn’t been secured with restricted boot settings.