Network share shortcut vanished windows 8.1 after microsoft updates

After updating a windows 8.1 desktop, the user complained that all of their "shortcuts" - which upon investigation are user created shortcuts to network share locations - are gone. We searched for the shortcuts to see if the user somehow
deleted or moved them, but they do not seem to be anywhere.
After reading several posts on disappearing shortcuts, the most likely suspect seems to be the automatic maintenance that windows performs, which includes removing unused or broken links. As these links were not broken or unused, I would like to find
out how the maintenance system identifies shortcuts that should be removed. Also, is there a report that shows what was removed? And is this report in a location that can be accessed remotely (\\computername\c$\users\username\... or something
like this or through the event viewer connected to the remote computer).
I do not want to disable the automatic maintenance, but I also don't want this to occur to other users, or repeat with this one.
Please advise.
Fred Zilz

Hi Fred Zilz,
Here is an article talking about the shortcut missing when using System Maintenance troubleshooter:
See this KB(Applies to Windows 7):Desktop shortcuts disappear in Windows 7
For automatic maintenance in Windows 8, please see:
Automatic Maintenance.
If we are sure the shortcuts are removed by automatic maintenance, we may take use of File history to restore the shortcuts back.
Restore files or folders using File History
Best regards
Michael Shao
TechNet Community Support

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