The System Maintenance trouble-shooter performs a weekly maintenance of the operating system. The System Maintenance trouble-shooter either fixes problems automatically or reports problems through Action Centre. When there are more than four broken shortcuts on the desktop, the System Maintenance trouble-shooter automatically removes all broken shortcuts from the desktop.
To work around this issue, use one of the following methods.
Method 1
Keep the number of broken shortcuts on your desktop to four or less.
Method 2
If you must have more than four broken shortcuts on your desktop, you can disable the System Maintenance trouble-shooter.
Note If you disable the System Maintenance trouble-shooter, all the maintenance tasks that it performs are disabled. Therefore, we recommend that you use Method 1.
To disable the System Maintenance trouble-shooter, follow these steps:
- Click Start , and then click Control Panel.
- Under System and Security, click Find and fix problems.
- On the left navigation pane, click Change settings.
- Set Computer Maintenance to Off.
Examples of broken shortcuts
You may create shortcuts on the desktop that frequently become "broken." For example, a desktop shortcut for a USB device may be regarded as broken if the USB device is not connected when the System Maintenance trouble-shooter performs its maintenance.