Forcing Shortcuts to All Users\Start Menu

[Yzöwl]

@ tguy - We're not creating anything, just moving stuff from individual user profile directories to the 'All Users' profile directory. This is because all the installed programs etc. will put shortcuts in various places.

As an additional note, with regards the moving of profile subdirectories, if you later create a new user, first logon will put stuff in their profile directory too. This would probably mean that you may wish to consider emptying contents of 'Default User' too! This is of course a hidden directory, and alterations in the code would need to be made in order to include it.

[perennialidentity]

I got it to work like this:

@echo off
cd "%UserProfile%\.."
for /d %%a in ("%UserProfile%\..\*") do if "%%~na" neq "All Users" call :doit "%%~a"
goto :eof
:doit
pushd %1
robocopy "Start Menu\." "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu" /E /Z /MOVE /R:5 /W:2 /XF ?esktop.ini>nul
popd
goto :eof

How do you do the "Default User" folder too?

What does "%%~na" and "%%~a" do?

[perennialidentity]

ok this moves all the shortcuts:

@echo off
cd "%UserProfile%\.."
for /d %%a in ("%UserProfile%\..\*") do if "%%~na" neq "All Users" call :doit "%%~a"
goto :dup
:doit
pushd %1
robocopy "Start Menu\." "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu" /E /Z /MOVE /R:5 /W:2 /XF ?esktop.ini>nul
popd
goto :eof
:dup
robocopy "%userprofile%\..\default user\Start Menu\." "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu" /E /Z /MOVE /R:5 /W:2 /XF ?esktop.ini>nul

But I am still wondering what "%%~na" and "%%~a" mean. I can't get any search engines to find % or ~ symbols.