You cannot assume that Desktop folder is a subfolder of 'C:\Documents and Settings\' because it can be changed. Using WSH you can retrieve location of Desktop folder for the current user and all users.

oShell = Createobject("wscript.shell")
lcDesktop = oShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
lcDesktopAll = oShell.SpecialFolders("AllUsersDesktop")

>Hi Everyone,
>
>Anybody know how to get all the files that are shown in the desktop of the computer. I tried to check in the user profiles under the
>"C:\Documents and Settings\XXXXX\Desktop" directory where the "XXXXX" is the user name but it is not complete. It only contains the partial file link and not all the files that I had on my desktop.