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List lnk or shortcut files in Windows with PowerShell



Link files or files with .lnk extension is also called shortcut files in Windows and is quite handy when accessing files, documents, or application programs when it is placed on a location where you needed it most. So you don’t have to browse all the way to the location of the file, instead just click the shortcut and the file or program will be opened.

As time goes by, shortcut files or .lnk files can easily be forgotten or sometimes it will just clutter on the desktop or in any sub folders in the computer.

How to list or get all shortcut files in Windows? Or aka how to get all .lnk files on the system?

PowerShell can easily list all the lnk or shortcut files, and determine when was the last time the shortcut link was used or modified.

Here’s the code using PowerShell on how to check all the ‘.lnk’ files on the system, Windows shortcuts has an extension of “.lnk” and its actual properties points to the location or path of the file.

PowerShell one-liner code to get all lnk files.

Get-CimInstance Win32_ShortcutFile | select Name, FileName, CreationDate, LastAccessed, Drive, Path,  FileType 


Sample output of the above command:

Name         : W:\Android\the_workspace\admob\backup\2\MobileKit\.gradle\2.8 - Shortcut.lnk
FileName     : 2.8 - shortcut
CreationDate : 16/11/2019 8:30:38 PM
LastAccessed : 16/1/2020 5:30:38 PM
Drive        : w:
Path         : \android\ the_workspace\admob\backup\2\MobileKit\.gradle\
FileType     : Shortcut

Above output, shows the date and time the link or shortcut was created and it also shows when was the last time the link was used.

Above is just a sample output, there could a more shortcut files on your system that the PowersShell command will find.

Just append  | out-file c:\temp\all_shortcut_files.txt, if need to save the output.
Cheers..till next time. :)


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