I have a bunch of "Shortcut" icons on my Windows desktop folder which don't appear as .lnk files in the powershell view of `C:/users/ME/Desktop` nor in fact do they show up at all. They do show up in the file manager, however, and right clicking the "Shortcut" and selecting Properties reveals that they refer directly to the corresponding applications in my `C:/Program Files/` directory. How can I prevent them from being displayed on the desktop (or in Windows Explorer) without uninstalling them?

![Windows Explorer view of my desktop](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ATAER.png)

I tried selecting them and deleting them, but Windows prompted me for administrator permissions to delete the programs themselves, and not the shortcuts.

![Prompt to delete the programs themselves. Not the links!](https://i.stack.imgur.com/baBIW.png)