Automatically Remove Orphan Vista Desktop Icons

[vatobeto]

Hi

I recently wrote a Vista unistaller for a program, which calls the UninstallString in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

Unfortunately, the desktop icon is left behind and I don't want the user to have to

manually clock on it and remove it - sort of defeats the whole point of automation.

Where are these icons located and I can I remove them from a script. The icons

in the user folders are useless for this.

THX, vatobeto (Code to follow)

CODE

#RequireAdmin

$regkey = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\DVD-lab PRO 2.5_is1"

$regvalue = "UninstallString"

$installDir = @ProgramFilesDir & "\DVDlabPro2"

$recurse = 1

$UIS = RegRead($regkey, $regvalue)

Run($UIS)

sleep(4000)

DirRemove($installDir, $recurse)

[Airwolf]

You'll simply need to perform a FileDelete() on the shortcut file. It's either in the user's profile (C:\Documents and Settings\username\Desktop\Shortcutname.lnk) or in the All Users profile (C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\Shortcutname.lnk). There are also variables in AutoIt for these directories - @DesktopDir, for instance, will return the current user's desktop path.

[vatobeto]

You'll simply need to perform a FileDelete() on the shortcut file. It's either in the user's profile (C:\Documents and Settings\username\Desktop\Shortcutname.lnk) or in the All Users profile (C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\Shortcutname.lnk). There are also variables in AutoIt for these directories - @DesktopDir, for instance, will return the current user's desktop path.

That's for XP, isn't it? I thought Documents and Settings is now an admin only directory blocked from user access in Vista.

[Airwolf]

That's for XP, isn't it? I thought Documents and Settings is now an admin only directory blocked from user access in Vista.

Sorry, I've still got XP on the brain. =)

User profiles are structured similarly; it's just C:\Users instead of C:\Documents and Settings.

[vatobeto]

Sorry, I've still got XP on the brain. =)

User profiles are structured similarly; it's just C:\Users instead of C:\Documents and Settings.

Thank you - that helps a lot!