Many times our pen drive or another data storage like memory card ,SD Card Data is automatically change in shortcuts virus . Actually our data is compressed in shortcut file and this type of file is virus file if our antivirus detects this then they can delete this file then our all data is formatted so by our process you can save or extract data from shortcut virus file
Remove shortcut virus is very easy Process like Deleting Other Files by SHIFT+DEL but if you will Not Follow Correctly then It Cause Loss of your Data so Here we shared very Detailed Explanation via CMD Commands so not any Software Required to Remove Shortcut Virus & Extract Our Important Data From it
This process of removing shortcut from data files in working in windows 8 , 7 , 10 and all other operating systems . This process is based on CMD by just type some commands and your data is extracted from shortcut file. Many time users have no chance other then formatting because this type of virus is also cover our data storage so this type of files shows just 1 Kb Data but actually under this compression our all data folder is stored so Don’t delete it just try this method and save your data from shortcut virus. This type of problem is come in all type of data storage and this process is working on all type of data storage just you need to connect your data storage device to pc.
In internet many tutorials is available for removing shortcut virus but this is very easy and fast method for remove shortcut virus and extract Original data from it.
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How to remove Shortcut Virus or extract files via CMD Commands
We will be explaining windows 7 ,8 , 10 process Actually this process works on every windows operating system but some steps is different So use your Brain or comment here for help.
- Type Windows Key + R, this would open up the run window or search for CMD and right click and select “Run as Administrator“. Or also you can Run CMD in Own Way But ” Run As Administrator “.
- Type CMD in it and click on enter.
- Connect your Pen drive and go to Computer, and check out your pen drive location, remember the USB drive letter or if you use Computer storage then remember hard drive letter.
- In CMD, type del *.lnk for removing the link files in directory
- Then type, attrib -h -r -s /s /d drive letter :\*.* and press enter, in this case we are taking drive as E
- Done! Your shortcut files is removed and you get your original data files from it.
Tags :- Remove shortcut virus From Pen Drive , Extract Data from Shortcut Files , CMD Command
AKASH SAHA says
In this case we are taking E drive and if we want to take F drive then instead of ( attrib -h -r -s /s /d drive letter :\*.* ) what we have to write?
admin says
You just Change drive letter with your drive letter