There are many alternatives to Links for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is Lynx, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Links and four of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Links are qutebrowser, FixBrowser and conkeror.
Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) browser for users on Unix, VMS, and other platforms running cursor-addressable, character-cell terminals or emulators. That includes vt100 terminals, other character-cell displays, and vt100 emulators such as Kermit or Procomm...
An actively developed, keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI, inspired by other browsers/addons like dwb and Vimperator/Pentadactyl. It’s based on Python, PyQt5 and QtWebKit and free software, licensed under the GPL.
FixBrowser is a truly lightweight web browser created from scratch. It intentionally doesn't support JavaScript to make things faster and much less resource intensive. Instead it contains an updated set of scripts that fix and improve various websites.
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Links is easier to use than Lynx (at least initially). You press ESC and you have a menubar. You press F1 and you a shortcuts keys cheatsheet.