Search or find target for shortcut missing features in Vista, deleted?

I just finished a large number of documents, 7 GB, from my old XP computer to a new computer with Vista.  To avoid creating copies of the same file in this big folder structure I created often in many places shortcuts to point to the actual file.  Over the years, some of the structure of file modified and moved the target, so the shortcuts files are pointing to the old location.

In Vista, whenever I've chaque fois que j' ai rencontre met one of these shortcuts pointing to the old location, by clicking the shortcut creates a "problem with shortcut" error and load the file fails.  In addition, if you right click on the shortcut properties, the button "find target" of XP has been replaced by "position to open the file" and it does not work as well.

Under XP, it was never a problem.  I tested the old computer to make sure.  Whenever you click on a shortcut pointing to a location on the old XP automatically to find the file and resolve the reference shortcut, which loads the file with a slight delay only.  After closing the file the shortcut would now point to the new location.  The same thing will happen if you right-click the shortcut properties and chose the target of research, he finds the new loacation fairly quickly.

Is there a reason for this 'Find target' for shortcuts feature has been disabled or deleted in Vista?  Is there a way to reactivate?

I am running Vista SP1 with Windows Search 4.0.  Windows Search makes it quick to find the target file, but manually having to search and update each shortcut is going to be a real pain.

I did some research and found this article that explains how to turn off this feature in XP and also to allow it.  I tried to create the same value of registry under Vista to see if it would, but it did not work:
http://www.pcauthorities.com/Windows-XP/disable-missing-shortcut-search

I also tried the .lnk associations found here:
http://www.Winhelponline.com/blog/new-shortcut-Wizard-does-not-work-or-the-option-is-missing-in-Vista/

Nothing seems to work.  What is it disabled for security or something?  Is there a way to set the shortcuts?

This feature has been removed from Vista, why... I have no idea :(

I hope that they (Microsoft) has added it back with Windows 7... which was released in October also ;)

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