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Microsoft has officially validated the workaround for the mayhem caused by Defender yesterday. The company has published a fix but has confirmed it can't restore the deleted shortcuts for you.

Microsoft has addressed a false positive triggered by a buggy Microsoft Defender ASR rule that would delete application shortcuts from the desktop, the Start menu, and the taskbar and, in some cases, render existing shortcuts unusable as they couldnt be used to launch the linked apps.

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Today, Microsoft released two new Windows 10 cumulative updates, which are optional. They're for versions 1909 and 1809, and they're the previews for next month's Patch Tuesday updates.