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Remove Missing Shortcuts
Name: robbied69 Date: August 30, 2007 at 09:03:45 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 1.6 GHz/1GB Product: Acer Travelmate 3211WXMi
Comment:
Was just wondering if someone can help me. When I create a new network user, they are given many shortcuts of programs that are not installed.
When I created a default user profile I did it on a machine which had a few programs that are not available on other computers here. I copied it to the netlogon share and copied all settings etc into the default user folder. So now whenever I create a new user they have loads of shortcuts, which are invalid.
What I was wondering is if there is a way to stop these appearing via a GPO or something. If someone can help me, I'd be very grateful.
Name: Lucid Date: August 30, 2007 at 14:37:25 Pacific
Reply:
Your best bet is to probably use a startup or login script and have it check for your unwanted shortcuts and delete them. That and make sure any new setups don't have your unwanted items...
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Response Number 2
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: August 31, 2007 at 11:00:25 Pacific
Reply:
Why not just create a new default user with only the shortcuts for the standard installed programs?
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