{"id":65,"date":"2018-09-08T10:04:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T08:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/data-samurai.ch\/?p=65"},"modified":"2020-05-12T18:42:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T16:42:30","slug":"kill-the-shortcuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rel01.data-samurai.ch\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Kill the shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/rel01.data-samurai.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/lucy-liu-2450261_960_720.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77\" width=\"580\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rel01.data-samurai.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/lucy-liu-2450261_960_720.png 960w, https:\/\/rel01.data-samurai.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/lucy-liu-2450261_960_720-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/rel01.data-samurai.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/lucy-liu-2450261_960_720-768x543.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of the RuckZuck tool&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ruckzuck.tools\/default.aspx\">http:\/\/ruckzuck.tools\/default.aspx<\/a> which makes it very easy to download, install or update software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How does it work<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><em>RuckZuck knows the links to the latest versions of Software and the parameters how the software can be installed silently. So if you update or install a software, the tool does download the file(s) from the vendor&#8217;s <\/em>web-site<em>, verifies that the file is valid (based on Hash values) and just triggers a silent install.<\/em><\/p><cite>ruckzuck.tools (08.09.2018) <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My problem<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because the installation is only silent a shortcut will be created. What is something I don&#8217;t need for <g class=\"gr_ gr_4 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation multiReplace\" id=\"4\" data-gr-id=\"4\">sure.<\/g>&nbsp;Especially when I set up a computer or I update a long list of applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How I fix that<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following code can remove these shortcuts. Just add in the array the name of the shortcut (You don&#8217;t have to write the full name but write enough to prevent deleting the wrong shortcut).<\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"lang:ps decode:true  crayon-selected\" title=\"Skript to remove some shortcuts\">$programs =  @(\"360 Total Sec\", \"Lenovo\", \"SHAREit\", \"PDF24\",\"VLC\",\"Google C\",\"CCleaner\") \n\nforeach($shortcut in $programs){\n\n    $shortcut = \"$env:public\\Desktop\\$shortcut*.lnk\" \n\n     if(Test-Path $shortcut){ \n        rm $shortcut\n    } \n}<\/pre>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p>I run the code after I update my computer. This saves me time because I don&#8217;t have to check which links I still need and which I want to delete. I know it sounds super lazy but because of this <g class=\"gr_ gr_15 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"15\" data-gr-id=\"15\"><g class=\"gr_ gr_16 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"16\" data-gr-id=\"16\">laziness<\/g><\/g> I learned <g class=\"gr_ gr_5 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del\" id=\"5\" data-gr-id=\"5\">programing<\/g> very quickly ;-).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of the RuckZuck tool&nbsp;&nbsp;http:\/\/ruckzuck.tools\/default.aspx which makes it very easy to download, install or update software. How does it work RuckZuck knows the links to the latest versions of Software and the parameters how the software can be installed silently. So if you update or install a software, the tool does download [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,24,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rel01.data-samurai.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rel01.data-samurai.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rel01.data-samurai.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rel01.data-samurai.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rel01.data-samurai.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/rel01.data-samurai.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/rel01.data-samurai.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rel01.data-samurai.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rel01.data-samurai.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rel01.data-samurai.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}