Shortcut
Most desktop icons are shortcuts rather than the thing itself. DeskDrawer shows them, groups them and launches them like any other item.
Broken shortcuts#
If a shortcut's target no longer exists, clicking it produces Windows' own "Problem with Shortcut" dialog offering to delete it — the same prompt the real desktop shows. Earlier versions swallowed this; it was restored in 1.2.1.
Shortcuts to network locations#
A shortcut pointing at an offline network share is the classic source of freezes in desktop tools, because naïvely asking Windows about it blocks until the network times out. DeskDrawer resolves such targets off the interface thread. See Performance and The same bug, five times: offline network locations.