# Foreach remove-item help
**URL:** https://forums.powershell.org/t/foreach-remove-item-help/3649
**Category:** PowerShell Help
**Created:** [January 21, 2015, 6:15am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/foreach-remove-item-help/3649 "2015-01-21T06:15:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@daniel-brooks](https://forums.powershell.org/u/daniel-brooks)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2015, 6:15am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/foreach-remove-item-help/3649/1 "2015-01-21T06:15:07Z")
I’m trying to delete everything on the desktop from a txt file containing computer names(40 pcs - separate domain). Maybe my syntax is off. I tried using invoke-command inside the foreach loop and wasn’t successful either.
$computers = Get-Content C:\mypc.txt
foreach ($comp in $computers)
{
Remove-item -Path “\$comp\c$\Users\desktop\*”
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.powershell.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2015, 6:29am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/foreach-remove-item-help/3649/2 "2015-01-21T06:29:55Z")
Your code is basically okay, assuming that you have appropriate rights on all of the computers you’re connecting to (access to the c$ share, permission to remove files from users’ desktops, etc. Basically, Administrator), with one exception. There is no C:\Users\Desktop folder. Instead, you want to remove the contents of the Desktop folder from each user profile found in C:\Users (assuming that user profile directories are their default values and haven’t been redirected.) Try this:
```
Remove-Item -Path "\\$comp\c$\Users\*\desktop\*" -WhatIf
```
I added the -WhatIf switch because this is a destructive command, and you might want to make sure you like what it’s doing first. You might also want to add a -Recurse switch to the command, if there are folders on these desktops that you want to clear out.
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### Author:  [@daniel-brooks](https://forums.powershell.org/u/daniel-brooks)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2015, 6:37am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/foreach-remove-item-help/3649/3 "2015-01-21T06:37:40Z")
Thank you! It looks like I was only one \* off. I wish I would have known about that -WhatIf command earlier, that is extremely helpful.
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### Author:  [@dotnVo](https://forums.powershell.org/u/dotnVo)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2024, 8:46pm UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/foreach-remove-item-help/3649/4 "2024-05-16T20:46:29Z")