Is there a short cut for desktop folder in Windows batch?

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You can use "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop" but I don’t know from which version of Windows it is built in.

If your want the real folder where Desktop is located then use this code in the bach

for /F “skip=2 tokens=3* delims= ” %%a
in (‘reg query
“HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders” /v Desktop’) do set
DesktopFolder=”%%a”

This requires the reg.exe to be available (again, I don’t know from which version of Window it is there) and it will set the DesktopFolder variable to the path of the Desktop.

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