PowerShell to delete Desktop Items from a remote PC
Change this, you already specify a slash in your $destination variable, you are double up @ \\c$
Remove-Item "\\$computer$DESTINATION\$file" -Recurse
otherwise, you are trying to delete this path and failing.
\\computername\\c$\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\$file
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Updated on June 17, 2022Comments
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software is fun over 1 year
I have 200 PC that need to have some specific icons removed.
I created a CSV file with the ComputerName (1 name per row)
I have another file with the file name of the icon that needs to be removed from the desktops (Shortcut1.lnk, etc). This other file is also a CSV (1 file name per row).
How can I run a PowerShell script to remove those icons. (Please note that not all computers in my CSV file maybe turned on. Some maybe off or have network issues).
$SOURCE = "C:\powershell\shortcuts" $DESTINATION = "c$\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop" $LOG = "C:\powershell\logs\logsremote_copy.log" $REMOVE = Get-Content C:\powershell\shortcuts-removal.csv Remove-Item $LOG -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue $computerlist = Get-Content C:\powershell\computer-list.csv foreach ($computer in $computerlist) { foreach ($file in $REMOVE) { Remove-Item "\\$computer\$DESTINATION\$file" -Recurse } }
This is my code so far but it doesn't appear to delete the files from
\\computername\c$\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop
I am getting errors and warnings. The log file also doesn't seem to be creating.
Anyway to get a report of what was deleted. what was not deleted?
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software is fun almost 10 yearsThanks. I missed it but I am getting warnings saying Remove-Item : Cannot find path '\\COMPUTERNAME\c$\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\SCANNER.lnk' because it does not exist. At C:\powershell\powerdelete.ps1:11 char:16 + Remove-Item <<<< "\\$computer\$DESTINATION\$file" -Recurse + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (\\COMPUTERNAME\c$\D...top\SCANNER.lnk:String) [Remove-Item], ItemNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand
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Knuckle-Dragger almost 10 yearsTry wrap an if clause around a test-path statement to verify the file exists before attempting to delete. Here is the kind-of syntax serverfault.com/questions/560505/…