Identifying and Resolving Shortcuts/Links of Files and Folders

In Windows file shortcuts can be identified by the file extension. Default file extension for file and folder shortcuts is ".lnk". But also ".appref-ms" is used as file extension for file shortcuts. Furthermore could it be possible that installed applications use the default shortcut file extension for its own application dependent files. So using file extensions as evidence for shortcut is not sufficient.

A solution to identify and resolve Windows shortcuts is presented on the Developer Code Samples Gallery (Identifying and Resolving Shortcuts/Links of files and folders) and the TechNet Wiki (Identifying and Resolving Shortcuts/Links of Files and Folders).