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You can use FOR /F to loop through subfolders of the Documents and Settings folder, as in the code below. &nbsp;Change all instances of %%G to %G if you're running it from the command line rather than in a batch script.<br />
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See here for a good explanation of FOR /F:<br />
<a href="http://www.ss64.com/nt/for_cmd.html" rel="ugc">http://www.ss64.com/nt/for_cmd.html</a><br />
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<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-9564"><span>for /F &quot;tokens=* usebackq&quot; %%G in (`dir &quot;\\%PC%\C$\Documents and Settings&quot; /A:D /B`) do (</span>
<span> del &quot;\\%PC%\C$\Documents and Settings\%%G\Desktop\icon.url&quot;</span>
<span>)</span>
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^ ... even if icon.url does not exist in the &quot;Documents and Settings&quot; folder, but only it its sub-folders, the command above will delete this file from all the sub-folders.
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VERY simple script, but I can't figure it out.<br />
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I want to deploy a script to my building to delete a particular icon from all the user desktops (XP machines). The icon I want to delete is not in the &quot;All Users&quot; profile, but is saved in individual user profiles. This script below works when I use it to delete the icon from the All Users, Default User, or my own desktop. But how do I script it to delete the icon from all the unknown profiles on the PC ? <br />
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This works: &nbsp; &nbsp;del icon.url &quot;\\%PC%\C$\Documents and Settings\all users\Desktop&quot;<br />
This doesn't: &nbsp;del icon.url &quot;\\%PC%\C$\Documents and Settings\%users%\Desktop&quot;<br />

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VERY simple script, but I can't figure it out.

I want to deploy a script to my building to delete a particular icon from all the user desktops (XP machines). The icon I want to delete is not in the "All Users" profile, but is saved in individual user profiles. This script below works when I use it to delete the icon from the All Users, Default User, or my own desktop. But how do I script it to delete the icon from all the unknown profiles on the PC ? 

This works:    del icon.url "\\%PC%\C$\Documents and Settings\all users\Desktop"
This doesn't:  del icon.url "\\%PC%\C$\Documents and Settings\%users%\Desktop"


What script syntax to delete a file from all of the \\Documents and Settings desktops?

Batch files are text files containing a script of commands that are executed by the command interpreter on DOS, OS/2 and Windows systems. Most commonly, they are used to perform a series of functions that are repeated -- copying a set of files created daily with one step, for example.

Windows Batch

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