Defaulty Behavior

Say what you will about Microsoft, but the fact remains that their operating system and suites of applications are quite prevalent. These apps do many thing well, but some things are downright stupid. Often, applications attempt to "be helpful," assuming a course of action the user might have wanted to take. Typically, there's a pop-up indicating such helpfulness, and the user has the option to select whether or not to accept this assistance. (e.g. Closing an unsaved document... would you like to save? [Oh, yes. Thank you.] Typing "Sund"... do you mean Sunday? [Why, yes. You've just saved me 2 keystrokes {minus the 1 for hitting enter, so really, just 1 key... and you interrupted me in the process... but it's the thought that counts.}])

One generally accepted practice amongst GUI designers is to make the default option either the "most common" or the "least dangerous". With that in mind, I now ask what you think the best default behavior ought to be upon double-clicking a shortcut that doesn't currently point to a target. Such a situation could arise if an executable were moved (either intentionally or not), if a drive was not mapped (either intentionally or not), or if the shortcut path were updated (either intentionally or not). So say, for example, the shortcut is to an application that's on a network drive and, for some reason, you're not connected to the network when you tried to launch a program -- what would make the most sense as a default behavior?

If you said "delete the shortcut" then you've got a promising career out in Silicon Valley...

 

Really?!? You can't find where the shortcut points, so the "obvious choice" is to simply delete it?

Allow me to take this line of thinking to come comedically hyperbolistic analogous situations.
Your document won't print. Seems the printer is out of paper... should I go ahead and delete the document?
It seems you dialed a wrong number... would you like me to destroy your phone?
I notice your car won't start... shall I blow it up?

Thanks, but no thanks.