Shortcuts on desktop changed to Lnk file

Help, whenever I try to makea shortcut to desk top of anything it ends up a
LNK file, all all shortcuts in Startup menu are LNK files, even if a program
wants to put a shortcut on desktop it ends up a lnk file also on startup
excel will open up a lnk file
.

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