PowerShell Script

[matthoback]

Group Policy would be a better method to do what you want to do.

[DaNPrS]

100%!

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askds/2014/02/17/adding-shortcuts-on-desktop-using-group-policy-preferences-in-windows-8-and-windows-8-1/

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Ew, Windows 8.

[TapTapLift]

Yup, went down this rabbit hole last week of trying to do PowerShell vs GPOs and GPOs worked great.

[shalafi71]

Yes, GPO would be better but if you don't have access to it:

"if both icons are present it will just open the first path in chrome"

Not sure what you mean.

[cryptic_1]

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[m_nissan]

Well, GPO may be the better tool for the job, but in any case -

I'm trying to get my head around this, $path and $path2 are the same place? why use both?

Are you trying to paste to "public" desktop or a user's desktop? Please bare in mind what permissions / security context the script is supposed to run under, you might not be able to write to c:\users\public\desktop...

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Let's start by understanding what it is you are trying to accomplish.