My Shortcuts try and resolve to UNC paths?

A. A. Shortcuts when created are automatically created with an UNC with \ in .lnk file. This is usually a problem if you copy shortcuts to other machines, however there are a number of ways to fix this.

To fix a single shortcut you can use the shortcut.exe program supplied with the Windows NT Resource Kit supplement 1 kit.

To dump out a shortcut use shortcut -u .lnk

To alter the shortcut to not track the machine before you copy it to others use the command

shortcut -c -s -n .lnk

To change the target and working directory on a moved shortcut use

shortcut -c -t d:www.ntfaq.comindex.html -d d:www.ntfaq.com -n ntfaq.lnk

To disable link tracking for all shortcuts perform the following: