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are you sure it's a hyphen?<br />
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you could try this: &nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;short*cut.lnk&quot;<br />

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are you sure it's a hyphen?

you could try this:    "short*cut.lnk"


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or, if you want to narrow it to a one-character variable:<br />
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&quot;short ? cut.lnk&quot;<br />

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or, if you want to narrow it to a one-character variable:

"short ? cut.lnk"


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To clarify, the shortcut is already on the user's desktops and the file name is: &nbsp;short - cut.lnk &nbsp; I want to delete this shortcut with a logon script batch file. &nbsp;Are you saying that using the command <br />
del &quot;short*cut.lnk&quot; will work? &nbsp;There is a space on both sides of the hyphen in the shortcut name....Thanks for the responses.
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To clarify, the shortcut is already on the user's desktops and the file name is:  short - cut.lnk   I want to delete this shortcut with a logon script batch file.  Are you saying that using the command
del "short*cut.lnk" will work?  There is a space on both sides of the hyphen in the shortcut name....Thanks for the responses.

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Okay, thanks. &nbsp;I ended up using: &nbsp;del &quot;the*short*cut.lnk&quot; &nbsp;and it worked. &nbsp;Thanks for the quick response on a Friday!<br />
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TGIF<br />
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JK
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Okay, thanks.  I ended up using:  del "the*short*cut.lnk"  and it worked.  Thanks for the quick response on a Friday!

TGIF

JK

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I am trying to write a batch file to delete an icon on users desktops. &nbsp;I've used this same batch file to delete icons from the desktop in the past but this icon cannot be deleted. &nbsp;I think the problem is that the shortcut's name has a hyphen and spaces in its name (i.e. &nbsp;short - cut.lnk) I always know to use quotes for spaces but what do you do to get past the hyphen?<br />
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Thanks,<br />
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JK
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I am trying to write a batch file to delete an icon on users desktops.  I've used this same batch file to delete icons from the desktop in the past but this icon cannot be deleted.  I think the problem is that the shortcut's name has a hyphen and spaces in its name (i.e.  short - cut.lnk) I always know to use quotes for spaces but what do you do to get past the hyphen?

Thanks,

JK

Batch File for Deleting Icons

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