desktop shortcuts

:) remove 1 > from your last cmd line

No, if you do that, you overwrite the log file and end up with ONLY the allusersprofile list.

>> = append
> = OVERWRITE.

Using > first overwrites the existing one at logon and the >> appends the allusers to the newly created log file.

:) I thought you used 2 files, 1 for the user, the other for 'all users'... You are right!

All my shortcuts are on all users desktop because that's where I put them.  Can I use pexec to run that script?

Or maybe a loging or startup script?

No because PSEXEC runs as the user you specify - you need to run it as the USER who you want the list for.  That's why the login script makes the most sense.  You could, I suppose, push the script to their "all users profile" "startup" group on each PC so it executes when the logon without necessarily being a part of the logon script (you shouldn't need to use PSEXEC for that because (I assume) you have admin rights to all those systems).  But when you do things like that you HAVE to be certain that the paths are always the same - they COULD be different - Vista and 7 store user profiles in C:\Users by default while XP and 2000 use "C:\Documents and Settings"

The local user has no rights to install or run anything.  I will try to run it as a startup script in a test and let you know.  Thx/

one more question.  Save this as a bat or vbs?

Those commands are basic Windows commands and likely won't be impacted by restrictions.  The user needs rights to save that log file to the share (read/write), but otherwise, that should do it.  

What I've posted is a simply batch file - .cmd or .bat (99.9% the same).

I tried them both.  However, it's not recording all the shortcuts only 1?

I figured out y... I need both .url and lnk I added them and it works.

I just had to modify a bit but it works and its just what I needed.  thanks.