How can I allow users to delete shortcuts from Public Desktop- permissions disappear.

Question

On Windows 10, I want to allow users to delete shortcuts from the Public Desktop folder. I have tried adding the Modify permission for Users on this folder and that works great but only for a while. Somehow after a short while the permission disappears. Why is this happening? Is there another method I can use to allow users to delete the icons?

I have a feeling the permissions are resetting because 'Public Desktop' is some sort of special folder.

Answer 1

Try to add everyone into Security tab, give everyone full control permission, OK.

Test again.
About your concern, the permission of public desktop folder does will be reset regularly, in order to workaround this situation, make a scheduled task to apply at startup that resets the permissions.

icacls c:\users\public\desktop /grant Everyone:(CI)(F) /t /l /q
Apply the task at system startup and give it some kind of administrator credentials.
Source:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/54ea0855-1a29-4567-8127-43a92f710e03/cuserspublicdesktop-file-permissions-resetting?forum=win10itprosecurity

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Answer 2

Why is it resetting regularly?

Thanks for your suggestion but creating a scheduled task just isnt practical for me to do on hundreds of machines and seems like a bodge rather than a solution.