Solving the problem of Windows 7 shortcut icon failure

Many users always like to try out various new software tools. Over time, the number of software tools installed in Windows 7 system 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?
Workaround: As long as you modify the Windows 7 system group policy with system administrator privileges, you can easily solve the above problems. First log in to the Windows 7 system with system administrator privileges, click “Start →Run”, enter the system>gpedit.msc” command in the pop-up system run dialog box, press the Enter key to expand the System Group Policy Edit window. In the list area on the left side of the editing window, jump one by one to the user configuration → management template → start menu and taskbar & rdquo; branch, double click on the target branch under the mouse; use gray display unavailable Windows Install the program start menu shortcuts & rdquo; option, expand the option settings dialog box shown in Figure 1; by default, the system will select the "not configured" option, we should promptly use the "already enabled" option. Press the “OK” button to perform the setting save operation and finally restart the Windows 7 system. In this way, all the shortcut icons that appear in the system start menu, as long as they fail, the system will automatically display them in a gray unmarkable state, while other shortcut icons are still displayed in black dot status, thus deleting the invalid icon. When we don't have to click the test shortcut icon one by one, we can use the Ctrl function key to select all the gray non-dot shortcut icons at once, and then execute the “delete” command to quickly delete all invalid shortcuts. Icon is up.