I was fighting a lot with the stupid IE icon on the QuickLaunch bar. Now I thing this will not be an issue any more. I use %systemroot%\system32\shmgrate OCInstallHideIE to hide all IE Icons everywhere. This does hide the IE icon for all user profiles. In my $OEM$\$docs\Default User\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch folder, I drop all links I need. Thats it. If you want to reverse, you just run %systemroot%\system32\shmgrate OCInstallShowIE on the command line and you,ll see it again. You can do the same with Outlook Express: %systemroot%\system32\shmgrate OCInstallHideOE