How do I prevent Windows 10 removing desktop shortcut parameters?

Something(??) zapped the parameters on ALL my shortcuts recently.

For example, a shortcut such as:

 "%JAVA_HOME%\java" -jar myApp.jar

Stopped working, because it had been modified to:

 "%JAVA_HOME%\java" 

No more parameters. :-( Reconstructing them took quite some time and I'd like to prevent needing to go through that again.

Can you say ...

• What tool / update or whatever may have caused this?


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  Offer a method to prevent that happening again?

  
  
  
  
  • Clearly, I need to ensure my desktop keeps getting backed-up (too).
  
  
  • I'd prefer at the same time to NOT have to delve into backups if I can prevent the wipe in the first instance. Many thanks in advance.
  
  
  • Finally, do you know of a tool that will let me (re-)create shortcuts from CMD file. May be something like:
  
  
  
  

  make-shortcut "command line" "start-location" ["icon-path"]

  
  

Hopefully that conveys the idea.

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