.lnk Registry Broken after upgrading from Windows 8.1 to 10 - "The item you selected is unavailable. It may have been moved, renamed or removed."

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DrekAnon

Recently I decided to upgrade my computer to Windows 10! Everything went great and my personal files were kept after the upgrade, however, I quickly noticed that right clicking on files in my taskbar and using their shortcuts gave me "The item you selected is unavailable. It may have been moved, renamed or removed.", and it was pretty much every shortcut... The shortcuts for new tabs on browsers, private windows, new windows, quick access to folders I recently visited, so I decided to do a quick search. The main "fix" to this problem said that I should go to my registry through regedit, through "Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.lnk" and delete a folder named UserChoice, but I did not have that folder, and the alternative for that issue seems to be creating a new user account which I don't really want to do... any suggestions please?

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