getting rid of dead/stubborn shortcuts

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Hi guys
I wanted to do a bit of a clean up and have some bits that won't delete, one example being: click start>programs>FEAR 2 Demo..
Right clicking it just freezes my comp for a few seconds. I don't know how I've managed to get a load of these dead shortcuts, it's not like I just chuck things in the recycle bin. Can anyone help?

Thanks :)
 
Some un-installers aren't too great, so you can easily end up with dead icons.

You should just be able to right click the start button and choose explore, then browse to where the icon is, highlight and delete.

But saying that you should be able to right click and delete it as well. It will freeze for a few seconds but as long as you don't press the mouse button the right click menu should eventually pop up.

The reason it hangs for a bit is that the right click menu is context sensitive and so windows tries to find the target to work out what it is so that it can build the menu.

Never really understood why this takes so long to time out though, especially on local drives.

CCleaner should also clear up dead icons as well.
 
Hi choasophy :)
You were right about the right clicking, I just had to be a bit patient, thanks for explaining that to me. Will download CCleaner to to help with my spring clean

Cheers! :)
 
Yeah this is pretty pathetic, I've only ever noticed it in Vista and not earlier versions of Windows. I don't see why it has to search for the target, when it can't find it in the specified location it should just bring up the default menu rather than trying to be too clever.
 
The reason why it freezes, is cos its looking for the path but its not there anymore, but if you wait 10secs or so the right click panel will show, then you can delete it
 
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