Windows 7 Computer Maintenance - Restore removed Desktop Shortcuts

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Published on 2011-11-09T12:42:25Z Indexed on 2011/11/19 17:57 UTC
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I'm aware about the inbuilt nightmate 'tool' of Microsofts which is making every network administrators job a nightmare (if left turned on).

In short it'll happily delete every desktop shortcut to a network resource. We have it disabled by default.

My question is related to recovering these shortcuts, Windows doesn't seem to dump them into the Recycle Bin and although you can 'restore previous versions' of the Desktop folder, you are unable to do it with the user logged in... Rather a problem if you only have the 1 user account.

We have a user who (although the 'Computer Maintenance' tool is turned off) had it come up in 'Action Centre' and chose to run it. I've been unable to reproduce it, but the tool has certainly run (and removed 24 shortcuts from her desktop) although it is still saying 'Windows is not checking your system for maintenance problems'. ?! Very fustrating!

Any ideas if these shortcuts are backed up/moved elsewhere so i can easily find and restore them?

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