Shortcuts Search And Replace Portable

Using your computer on a daily basis for work related activities might require you to keep it organized, not because of strict company policies but to enhance your workflow. What's more, there are countless applications willing to provide various ways to keep your documents together, find them in the nick of time, with Shortcuts Search and Replace Portable being dedicated to those pesky file that keep filling up your desktop, namely shortcuts.

Probably the first feature you notice before even running the application is portability. This comes in handy because you can simply deploy it on a removable storage device and use it on more computers with your filter specifications. It also means your system remains intact, with no registries being affected.

When you finally run the application, a clean and well-organized interface greets you, which makes for a quick accommodation. Most of the space represents the preview section where all search results are piled up in a list along with details related to path, target app, name and more. There's no classic file menu and all functions you work with are cleverly stored in the upper toolbar.

At its core, the application is merely a search engine fitted with specialized criteria that apply only to shortcuts, as well as a few functions to handle them, the manner in which this is done being entirely up to you.

As such, you need to make your selection of target folders, with a few presets at your disposal like the start menu or desktop, which are commonly used to store shortcuts. To widen search results even more, you can select additional criteria to be included in the process so that directory, file name, or arguments of the target are also handled.

Apart from retrieving results, the application is also capable of replacing broken shortcut links with parameters you need to input in a dedicated field. Moreover, you can also use it as a tool to identify all broken links and eliminate them from your computer.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Shortcut Search and Replace Portable is a small and practical utility which is more than capable of identifying shortcuts according to various criteria, replace them or even help you clean your computer of broken shortcut links. It's lightweight, portable and intuitive, attributes which make it worth a try.