Cleverly delete Win7's invalid shortcut icons at one time.

Many users always like to try out various new software tools. Over time, the number of software tools installed in Windows 7 systems is increasing. Although most of the tools are uninstalled, their shortcuts are automatically deleted. However, due to various accidental reasons, such as manual forced deletion, program damage, incomplete uninstallation, etc., the shortcut icon appears in the system start menu. There may be a problem of failure. Before deleting these invalid shortcut icons, we must first click to determine the validity of the shortcut icon, and then decide whether to perform the manual deletion operation. Obviously, the method of deleting the invalid icon is troublesome and is not conducive to improving work efficiency. Then, can the Windows 7 system automatically display the invalid shortcut icon in the start menu in a gray unmarkable state, and then delete the gray shortcut icon in a centralized manner?

Solution:

as long as the system administrator privileges to modify the Group Policy Windows7 system, you can easily solve these problems. First log in to the Windows 7 system with system administrator privileges, click "Start → Run", click the "gpedit.msc" command in the pop-up system run dialog box, press the Enter key to expand the system group policy editing window, in the edit In the list area on the left side of the window, jump to the "User Configuration → Administrative Templates → Start Menu and Taskbar" branch one by one, and double-click the "Use Windows Installer Start Menu Shortcuts with Gray Unavailable" option under the target branch to expand. options settings dialog box shown in Figure 1;

By default, the system selects "not configured" option, we should promptly choose options, then click "OK" to "enabled" button to execute the settings are saved Operation, and finally restart the Windows 7 system.

this way, all systems appear in the Start menu shortcut icons, as long as they fail, the system automatically displays the status grayed point them out, while other shortcut icons can still point to the black display state, so When deleting the invalidation icon, we don't have to click the test shortcut icon one by one, but use the Ctrl function key to select all the gray non-pointable shortcut icons at once, and then execute the “delete” command to quickly delete. All the shortcut icons that are invalid.