Find and Delete a shortcut for all users

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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Joshua 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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