Vista - Delete a known file in a unknown location

I need to remove an icon from any users desktop. But, it needs to be during
a Computer logon script.
This:
wsh.RegRead("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Logon
User Name") works well to ID the current user during a User logon script,
but the current user is not know during the Computer logon.

I am using:
If Fso.FileExists(del) Then
fso.deleteFile del,1

So in need "icon" to be "any user"

Am I going about this wrong?

"NBullock" <niel_bullock@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%2358Qvs$SJHA.5080@xxxxxxYou should obtain the user's name from the environmental variable
%UserName%.

I will give that a try. Will this go through all profiles before a user
logs in?

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uGdy%23x$SJHA.5312@xxxxxx

In your initial post you said "it needs to be during a Computer logon
script". The variable %UserName% is set to a fixed value at logon time. It
is not set prior to the logon phase and it won't "go" through any profiles
unless your code causes it to do this.


"NBullock" <niel_bullock@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23I%23dE7$SJHA.5312@xxxxxx

Right, The user would not be known until the "user" logon process. I guess
I would need a "wildcard" for the folder named for the user(s). Then, loop
until each is checked / deleted. I am not sure that I could come up with
that code.
Maybe I can just get the last user that was logged in and set that as "icon"
to complete "del" = "C:\Documents and Settings\" & icon & "\Desktop\Client
6.20.lnk"

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eUK5OGATJHA.6000@xxxxxx

This won't work because of security restrictions. Why don't you perform the
whole task with a batch file that you invoke a few times from your console
while logged on as domain administrator?

@echo off
set profiles=c$\documents and settings
set icon=Desktop\Client6.20.lnk
if not exist c:\PCs.done cd 2>c:\PCs.done
for /F %%a in (c:\PCs.txt) do (
find /i "%%a" c:\PCs.done && goto :eof
ping %%a | find /i "bytes=" || goto :eof
echo %%a >> c:\PCs.done
for /d %%d in ("\\%%a\%profiles%\*") do echo del /s %%d\%icon%
)

The file c:\PCs.txt must contain the NetBIOS names of all your PCs. The file
c:\PCs.done will contain the NetBIOS names of all PCs that could be reached.
Invoke the batch file repeatedly until all PCs have been dealt with.

Start by running the batch file as it is. When you're happy with its report
about what it would do, remove the word "echo" in the second line from the
bottom to activate it.

"NBullock" <niel_bullock@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23s$x7eATJHA.1560@xxxxxx

Please ignore the previous batch file. It contained a silly error. Here is a
version that works. To activate it, remove the word "echo" in the last line.

@echo off
set profiles=c$\documents and settings
set icon=Desktop\Client6.20.lnk
if not exist c:\PCs.done cd 2>c:\PCs.done
for /F %%a in (c:\PCs.txt) do call :Sub %%a
goto :eof

:Sub
find /i "%1" c:\PCs.done > nul && goto :eof
echo Looking for %1
ping %1 | find /i "bytes=" > nul || goto :eof
echo Processing %1
echo %1 >> c:\PCs.done
for /d %%d in ("\\%1\%profiles%\*") do echo del /s %%d\%icon%


"NBullock" <niel_bullock@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23s$x7eATJHA.1560@xxxxxx

Thanks - I resorted to having the logon script look up the last logged in
user and had it delete the file from that profile, if it was there. That
took care of about 90%.


"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Dec 1 2008, 4:02*pm, "NBullock" <niel_bull...@xxxxxx> wrote:Since this is a WSH forum, I thought I would offer a VBS option.

If it's in a login script, why couldn't you do this? It would affect
only the user logging in and run silently.

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run("%comspec% /C del %userprofile%\desktop\Client6.20.lnk",
0, FALSE)

Jim