DPR

No way to delete them at this point of the setup ... IE, OE and Media Player shortcuts are created during the first login process with the help of the stub path entries inside the registry. They can all be found under "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components". You may delete the corresponding entries, but you should also keep in mind that this will skip some initializations of the mentioned apps. However - it's relatively safe to remove these entries. Stub-path GUIDs ... IE: {89820200-ECBD-11cf-8B85-00AA005B4383} {26923b43-4d38-484f-9b9e-de460746276c} OE: {44BBA840-CC51-11CF-AAFA-00AA00B6015C} {7790769C-0471-11d2-AF11-00C04FA35D02} {881dd1c5-3dcf-431b-b061-f3f88e8be88a} MediaPlayer: {22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95} {6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6}