Friday, May 04, 2012

Shortcut tool

In my organisation I make videos accessable to staff members via shortcuts to VLC on their start menus.

Yesterday I upgraded to the latest version of VLC and all of a sudden, none of the shortcuts worked anymore! Long story short, I found out I had to change the paths on all of the shortcuts to point to the right place. There were >100 shortcuts affected and no way was I going to start doing all of them individually.

That's where the imaginatively named Shortcuts Search and Replace comes in. With this tool its possible to search for a partial match in any number of shortcuts and change them accordingly. What's more- it's free!