Recreating public desktop icons

[imnota]

If we add

$lnks += getAllValidLNKsForDrive -path $res -drive $drive -prefix "Users\Public\Desktop\"

after line 483 in v1.1 of the script this would seem to allow retrieval of public desktop icons from VSS

[imnota]

Possibly also add

$lnks += getAllValidExtsForDrive -path $res -drive $drive -prefix "Users\Public\Desktop\" -extension ".url"

for urls as well now before line 605 in v3

[Andrew-J-Larson]

The only issue with this are the apps that optionally allow you to have a desktop icon created... so there would some users with shortcuts recreated when it wasn't needed.

Besides, any desktop shortcuts not recreated, can easily be fixed by the user, after the shortcut is available again in the startmenu.

[imnota]

Sorry, bit sketchy on my recollection on this as it's about 4 months since I last looked at the code, but believe this would only restore lnks and urls which had previously existed on the public desktop back to the public desktop (as the functions are only run against the mounted shadow copies and the files are recovered from within them).

My thought was to make it as easy as possible as not all end users are necessarily aware of how to create the shortcuts themselves (all depends on the knowledge of the end user base I guess!).