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Windows Shortcut

Summary

Windows Shortcut is a file format[1].

Key Facts

  • Windows Shortcut's instance of is recorded as file format[2].
  • Windows Shortcut's instance of is recorded as binary file[3].
  • Windows Shortcut's developer is recorded as Microsoft[4].
  • Windows Shortcut is a type of machine-readable data[5].
  • Windows Shortcut is a type of file shortcut[6].
  • Windows Shortcut's operating system is recorded as Microsoft Windows[7].
  • Windows Shortcut is part of file shortcut[8].
  • Windows Shortcut's described at URL is recorded as https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/repository/files/LNK.bt[9].
  • Windows Shortcut's described at URL is recorded as https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haypo/hachoir3/master/hachoir/parser/misc/lnk.py[10].
  • Windows Shortcut's described at URL is recorded as https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-shllink/16cb4ca1-9339-4d0c-a68d-bf1d6cc0f943[11].
  • Windows Shortcut's described at URL is recorded as https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd871305.aspx[12].
  • Windows Shortcut's media type is recorded as application/x-ms-shortcut[13].
  • Windows Shortcut's file extension is recorded as lnk[14].
  • Windows Shortcut's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/windows-shortcut[15].
  • Windows Shortcut's equivalent class is recorded as http://d3fend.mitre.org/ontologies/d3fend.owl#WindowsShortcutFile[16].
  • Windows Shortcut's file format identification pattern is recorded as 4C00000001140200[17].
  • Windows Shortcut's file format identification pattern is recorded as 4C0000000114020000000000C000000000000046[18].
  • Windows Shortcut's directs readers to is recorded as computer file[19].
  • Windows Shortcut's directs readers to is recorded as online document[20].

Body

Geography

Windows Shortcut is part of file shortcut[8].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include file format[2] and binary file[3].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . sweetscape.com. Retrieved . sweetscape.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . msdn.microsoft.com. Retrieved . msdn.microsoft.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . svn.apache.org. Retrieved . svn.apache.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . sweetscape.com. Retrieved . sweetscape.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . Gary Kessler's File Signature Table. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . TrID. mark0.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . fileformats.archiveteam.org. fileformats.archiveteam.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . web.archive.org. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · William Avery Bot bot · 2026-08-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Stack exchange tag → https://stackoverflow.com/tags/windows-shortcut
    Pronom file format id → x-fmt/428
    Subclass of → machine-readable data, file shortcut
    Directs readers to → computer file, online document
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-references:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P13269]]: [[Q60476228]], Changing http://web.archive.org/ URLs to https (×1). See [[Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/William_Avery_Bot_14|requ"
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