Hello,

I want to add explorer shotcut to top of start menu, and remove icons created by default (Windows update, microsoft update, etc...) and replace in programs/acesssories shotcut to CMD.EXE and Explorer.exe to my custom shotcuts.

And add custom shotcuts to QuickLaunch.

Question: What best way to place and remove icons in a start menu during or after w2k splitstreamed install?

Do a search for "shortcut.exe" This holds the answer you seek.

Do a search for "shortcut.exe" This holds the answer you seek.

Ok, is to create, but to remove (delete) or move?

An example of moving a shortcut:

MOVE /Y "%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Internet Explorer.lnk" "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Communications\Internet Explorer.lnk"

Examples of deleting a shortcut:

DEL /F /Q "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Set Program Access and Defaults.lnk"
DEL /F /Q "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Windows Update.lnk"
DEL /F /Q "%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Remote Assistance.lnk"

beaker, I'm looking to another skill to make this, but I not found. I believe that I will have to make one script .cmd to this.

Thank's for the attention.

I made a script a while ago that cleans up the start menu

but since you have to account for multiple version of windows (2k xp vista)

and different languages (different paths and different shortcut names)

and you want all users to have identical start menu so you have to move all the short cuts to "all users"

and you want to make sure shortcuts are readable by all (if you install an app as admin then copy the

link to all users then login as user the link -may- be non-functionnal)

this is a lot of stuff to think about, and then you have the whole list of actual links and folders you want to look for

I was wondering, isn't there some automated start menu manager out there ?

I mean surely you don't go through all this trouble of fine tuning windows to install on hundreds of computers and then leave a start menu like this

(just an example )