current user desktop shortcut?

[patrickdrd]

I'm trying to create a shortcut on my desktop to access the currently logged on's user's desktop,
but nothing works,
neither:

C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\Desktop

%USERPROFILE%\Desktop

works but shows all desktop items,

I just want it to show the items in:

C:\Users\myuser\Desktop

of course I don't want "myuser" hardcoded,
is there a workaround?

 

[Brink]

Hello Partrick, and welcome to Seven Forums.

%USERPROFILE%\Desktop would be what you wanted to use for a global shortcut of the current user's Desktop folder.

It should only show all items in the current user's Desktop folder. What is showing you don't want?

 

[patrickdrd]

thanks for the warm welcome

well, it is showing all items,
both user's and public's items,

that happens only on my windows 7 computer,
I've got a windows 10 one and it is working fine there,

I can't understand why it doesn't work in windows 7

 

[Brink]

Ah, I see now.

That wouldn't be the "C:\Users\Public\Desktop" folder included.

It would be the Desktop shell folder showing instead to show all items.

I'm not sure why it does this in Windows 7, but not in Windows 10.

I was going to suggest using this below instead, but it opens the same Desktop shell folder.

C:\Users\%UserName%\Desktop

I checked in Environmental Variables, but it's the same in both W7 and W10 for them.

 

[townsbg]

From the command prompt type in the following command. Please post the results.

echo %UserProfile%

 

[patrickdrd]

this works properly, I mean it returns

c:\users\patrickdrd

but when I do %userprofile%\desktop I am redirected to the shell,
strange, the same thing happens on my windows 8.1 x64 laptop as well,
I have applied some registry tweaks too,
could it be related to any of them?

 

[Brink]

I wouldn't think so.

It also opens the Desktop shell folder on my clean install of W7 in a VM.

 

[patrickdrd]

strange, so it works on windows 10 only?

I even tried c:\users\%username%\desktop and it doesn't work either,

because my users folder is %username%.domain

 

[Brink]

Appears so. For some reason the variable is linked to the shell folder instead of actual folder in W7 and W8.