give that dude a medal, seriously!
Did this to an old roommate of mine. Completely forgot about it. A couple months later he wanted to show me a song he had been working on. He went to the start menu and was searching through menus to find his DAW. I asked him why he didn't just on the shortcut on the desktop. He said that all his icons stopped working awhile back and he has to start all his programs like that now. I felt kinda bad but we had a pretty good laugh.