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A lot of my users float and sadly Windows 10 loves to create new desktop icons in their folder when they log on. So with folder redirection some of them have 15 edge icons. I'm trying to write a powershell script to clean this up but it doesn't seem to work?
Any ideas?

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#Set Desktop Path $DesktopPath = [Environment]::GetFolderPath["Desktop"] #Array of shortcut names that often duplicate $DuplicateNames = @[ @{Name="Edge"} @{Name="Chrome"} @{Name="Teams"} ] $GetChildItem = Get-ChildItem -Path $DesktopPath -Include "*.*" -Recurse foreach [$ChildItem in $GetChildItem] { foreach[$DuplicateName in $DuplicateNames] { if[$ChildItem -contains $DuplicateName -and $ChildItem -contains "]" ] { Remove-Item -Path $ChildItem } } }

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Thai Pepper

francishagyard2 Aug 23, 2019 at 08:14 UTC

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This worked well for me:

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$DesktopPath = Join-Path -Path [[Environment]::GetFolderPath["Desktop"]] -ChildPath "*" $DuplicateNames = @[ "*Edge*", "*Teams*", "*Chrome*" ] Get-ChildItem -Path $DesktopPath -Filter *.lnk -Include $DuplicateNames | Where {$_.Name -like "*- Copy*.lnk"} | Remove-Item -Force

Edited Aug 23, 2019 at 09:40 UTC

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francishagyard2 Aug 23, 2019 at 08:14 UTC

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This worked well for me:

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Edited Aug 23, 2019 at 09:40 UTC

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jeremykowalski Dec 2, 2019 at 23:18 UTC

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We're running into the issue but with a variety of programs, especially as we begin to move towards pushing Known Folder Move through Group Policy causing every user-based program to create duplicates on each computer. What I've come up with so far is this:

Powershell

gci -path [[Environment]::GetFolderPath["Desktop"]] -filter "* - Copy*.lnk" | % {if [test-path[[$_.fullname -split "[ - Copy]"][0]+".lnk"]] {ri $_.fullname -force}}

For each desktop " - Copy" shortcut, verify if we have a non-copy version as well. If we do, remove the copy. If there is no 'base' version, leave the copy or copies until a base version is inevitably recreated. Repeat until done.

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