Preventing automatic removal of broken desktop shortcuts

[hkBattousai]

I have two external harddrives which I'm using for archiving purposes, because of that they are turned off most of the time. I have some shortcuts on the desktop to some directories on these external harddisks.

Windows occasionally removes these desktop shortcuts. It happens when the harddisks are turned off. I think it thinks that the shortcuts are broken and no longer needed, and tries to clean the desktop up.

How do I prevent this behavior?

(OS Version: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1)

 

[Brink]

Hello hkBattousai,

This sounds like the work of the System Maintenance Troubleshooter. If you like, you can turn it off using the tutorial below to stop this.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/165701-system-maintenance-troubleshooter-turn-off.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[kado897]

It's system maintenance that is doing it. You can turn it off. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/165701-system-maintenance-troubleshooter-turn-off.html


Damn. Too slow again.

 

[hkBattousai]

Hello hkBattousai,

This sounds like the work of the System Maintenance Troubleshooter. If you like, you can turn it off using the tutorial below to stop this.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/165701-system-maintenance-troubleshooter-turn-off.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

I saw that Troubleshooting was open by default. I closed it.

This was happening once in a few months. I will wait a few months to see if it would work; and eventually will post the result here.

I just hope that Troubleshooter would put me in trouble again...