Find and Delete a shortcut for all users

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Geoff Revell

• November 06, 2018 16:09

Is there a way to search through each users Desktop folder, for a particular shortcut link, and delete it? All computers are Windows 7.

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  Josh Mackelprang

  • November 06, 2018 21:54

  Hey Geoff,

  A quick foreach loop in PowerShell should take care of this,

  $files = Get-ChildItem C:\Users\*\Desktop\your_shortcut.lnk
  
  foreach ($file in $files)
  {
      Remove-Item $file -Force -WhatIf
  }
  

  You can run that on a target machine manually first to verify its doing what you would like. if it is, go ahead and remove the -WhatIF and you can run it as a PDQ Inventory Tool, or a PowerShell step in PDQ Deploy.

  -Josh

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  Geoff Revell

  • November 07, 2018 13:49

  Worked like a charm. Thank you so much Josh.

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  François Blawat

  • August 19, 2020 21:09

  I apologize for asking this, but I am still too new to PS scripts. I was wondering can this script be adapted to remove a Folder and all sub-folders  instead?

   

   

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