Microsoft Defender Update removes all the desktop shortcuts

Re:Microsoft Defender Update removes all the desktop shortcuts by lloydatkinson on Friday January 13, 2023 @11:08AM (#34369721)

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.

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Re:Microsoft Defender Update removes all the desktop shortcuts by Dutchie2020 on Friday January 13, 2023 @12:44PM (#34371131)

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.

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Re:Microsoft Defender Update removes all the desktop shortcuts by XVincentX on Friday January 13, 2023 @01:12PM (#34371598)

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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