Conditional foreach Windows Powershell - windows

Question

Hello to the community;
I am in a little problem, I am not an expert in powershell but I need it to be able to perform some automated actions.
I need to validate that shortcuts point to a specific path example C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplorer.exe
When it locates a shortcut that matches the search, it generates an action.
I am applying this small code, I cannot make a correct comparison of the values
$WSShell = New-Object -ComObject Wscript.Shell
$shortcutfiles = dir C:\Users\*\documents\*.lnk
$IE = "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplorer.exe"
foreach ($shortcutfile in $shortcutfiles ) {
if ($WSShell.CreateShortcut($shortcutfile).targetPath -eq $IE)
{
Write-Host "$IE"
}
}

Answer 1

Freddy,
The following code works on my system using PS 5.1 & Core 7.2.6.
Note: I changed the parameters to meet the .lnk files location on my machine. I didn't have any IE shortcuts to use.
Clear-Host
$ST = "C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe"
$shortcutfiles = Get-ChildItem -Path "G:\*\BTB" -Filter "*.lnk" -recurse
foreach ($shortcutfile in $shortcutfiles ) {
$CCFile = $($shortcutfile.FullName)
$WSShell = New-Object -ComObject 'Wscript.Shell'
if ((($WSShell.CreateShortcut("$CCFile")).targetPath) -contains "$ST") {
"$CCFile" #For Debugging!
"$ST"
}
$WSShell = $Null #Clear COM Object
}
Note: I made sure everything was resolved via use of parenthesis in the IF statement. Also note the use of -contains vs -eq since shortcuts often place parameters on the target line as they do with my Scheduled Task shortcuts.
Sample Output:
G:\BEKDocs\BTB\2. Maintanence\7-Command Prompt - System Level.lnk
C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe
G:\BEKDocs\BTB\2. Maintanence\Enable Network SafeBoot.lnk
C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe
G:\BEKDocs\BTB\2. Maintanence\Enable SafeBoot.lnk
C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe
G:\BEKDocs\BTB\Office Tools\Office Ribbon Editor.lnk
C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe
G:\BEKDocs\BTB\Command Prompt as Admin.lnk
C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe
G:\BEKDocs\BTB\Everything Search.lnk
C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe
G:\BEKDocs\BTB\Regedit as Admin.lnk
C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe
G:\BEKDocs\BTB\Search Content.lnk
C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe
G:\BEKDocs\BTB\Shutdown ALL.lnk
C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe