script to remove multiple desktop shortcuts for all the users

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RUN AS LOCALSYSTEM USER!

NOTE:

1. THE TYPE OF THE "SHORTCUTNAMES" PARAMETER SHOULD BE STRING.

2. IF YOU WANT TO REMOVE ONLY ONE SHORTCUT, PLEASE GIVE THE NAME OF THE SHORTCUT WITH EXTENSTION IN THE "SHORTCUTNAMES" PARAMETER.

3. IF YOU WANT TO REMOVE MULTIPLE SHORTCUTS, PLEASE SEPERATE THEM WITH COMMA LIKE SHOWN BELOW,

Notepad++.lnk , Google Chrome.lnk , yahoo.url , Microsoft Edge.lnk

Procedure's Instructions

ShortcutNames = itsm.getParameter('ShortcutNames') # give here the shortcut names with extension. 
#if you want to remove more than one shortcut, please seperate them with comma - ",". for example: google.url , Notepad++.lnk , Google Chrome.lnk

from subprocess import PIPE, Popen
import ctypes
import os

class Remove_Shortcut:
    
    class disable_file_system_redirection:
        _disable = ctypes.windll.kernel32.Wow64DisableWow64FsRedirection
        _revert = ctypes.windll.kernel32.Wow64RevertWow64FsRedirection
        def __enter__(self):
            self.old_value = ctypes.c_long()
            self.success = self._disable(ctypes.byref(self.old_value))
        def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
            if self.success:
                self._revert(self.old_value)

def executecmd(self,CMD):
        with self.disable_file_system_redirection():
            OBJ = Popen(CMD, shell = True, stdout = PIPE, stderr = PIPE)
            out, err = OBJ.communicate()
            if out:
                print(out)
            else:
                print(err)
    
    def remove(self,shortcutNames):
        Name_list = shortcutNames.split(",")
        users=os.popen("net users").read().split()[5:-4]
        fil_users=[i.strip() for i in users if i.strip()!="Administrator" and i.strip()!="Guest"]
        fil_users.append("Public")
        for shortcut in Name_list:
            for user in fil_users:
                if os.path.exists("C:\Users\%s"%(user)):
                    path = os.listdir("C:\Users\%s\Desktop"%(user))
                    out = list(filter(lambda n: shortcut.strip().lower() in n.lower(), path))
                    if out:
                        os.remove("C:\Users\%s\Desktop\%s"%(user,out[0]))
                        print("successfully removed the shortcut - %s"%("C:\Users\%s\Desktop\%s"%(user,out[0])))

shortcut_obj = Remove_Shortcut()

shortcut_obj.remove(ShortcutNames)

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