Looking for: Dead Shortcut/Link (.LNK) Finder

Does anyone know of an app/script to:
1. scan whole folder/drive
2. find all files ending in .lnk (i.e. shortcuts)
3. if the thing that it's pointing to does not exist -> alert me / flag it / delete it / etc

I'll continue searching online, but I must not be using the right keywords or it's hard to find.

You could copy/paste this into powershell. It will make a file MissingTargets.txt on your desktop containing shortcuts where the target doesn't exist. Just need to change the drive letter D:\ in the first line.

Code:

$Shortcuts = Get-ChildItem -Recurse "D:\" -Include *.lnk

$Shell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell
foreach ($Shortcut in $Shortcuts)
{
	$Properties = @{
	ShortcutName = $Shortcut.Name
	Path = $Shortcut.FullName
	ShortcutDirectory = $Shortcut.DirectoryName
	Target = $Shell.CreateShortcut($Shortcut).targetpath
	}
	New-Object PSObject -Property $Properties

	if (-not (Test-Path $Properties.Target)) {$Properties.Path>>$env:homeDrive$env:homePath\Desktop\MissingTargets.txt} 
}

If you wanted to delete them instead of reporting them then change the line at the end from

Code:

if (-not (Test-Path $Properties.Target)) {$Properties.Path>>$env:homeDrive$env:homePath\Desktop\MissingTargets.txt}

to

Code:

if (-not (Test-Path $Properties.Target)) {Remove-Item $Properties.Path -Force -ErrorAction 0}

Based on this code [Powershell] Get Shortcut Target : AskGreg