22 March 2013

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Powershell: Public Desktop Environmental Variable

  Friday, March 22, 2013    1 comment
Powershell 3.0 now has a public desktop environmental variable, CommonDesktopDirectory, unlike versions 1 & 2. In order to make the powershell public desktop environmental variable compatible across different versions, use the following line:


  • $desktop = ([Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Public"))+"\Desktop"

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