>I need to have my program delete some old shortcuts that are left behind in the windows menu and on the desktop after an upgrade. It has to work on all windows 32 bit platforms. Anybody know how to do that?

Short cut links are just files in folders, so just delete them. If you need to find the paths to the Desktop, Start Menu, my LNKFILES.DLL (in the download section) will do that as will the Windows Script Host if it's available.