XP & Win7: All User Desktop

 

Are you looking a script that can copy a file into all user desktop which work on either XP or Win7. Below is the script that modify from Michael Hex .

PUBLIC folder is the location for All Users in Windows 7.

Example: Copy a URL shortcut into Win XP & Win 7 desktop.

   1: @echo off

   2: IF "%PUBLIC%"=="" GOTO NO_PUBLIC 

   3: GOTO PUBLIC_FOUND

   4:  

   5: :NO_PUBLIC 

   6: Rem Win XP 

   7: copy "Bing.url" "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop"

   8:  

   9: :PUBLIC_FOUND 

  10: Rem Win Vista or Win 7

  11: copy "Bing.url" %PUBLIC%\Desktop 

Don’t forget to turn off User Account Control ( UAC ) in Vista & Win7