dandirk Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Anyone familiar with windows Active Setup?Located in HKLM + HKCU\software\microsoft\active setupFrom my tinkering this is where the commands are located that installs Outlook Express Icons, Addressbook icons, IE icons to the start menu etc... when a new user log's on for the first time.I have played around with it and managed to remove the Outlook icons but cannot remove IE icons with out the system installing all the garbage links into a users favorites.... I assume I have to delete/edit the right combination of reg keys in HKLM\software\microsoft\active setup\installed components....Well I deleted all the keys and my profile is no longer assaulted by added icons/favorites/quickbar icons etc....Does anyone happen to know if removing all of the Active Setup commands will cause me problems later down the road?These machines would be in a controlled environment, where most apps especially large upgrades like IE would be managed with a custom install package and tech install... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Setuphttp://bonemanblog.blogspot.com/2004/12/ac...-and-their.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dandirk Posted December 15, 2007 Author Share Posted December 15, 2007 Thanks for the links, I ran across them in the research of these keys... Though I appreciate the reread, as it brought up a thought...There are entries in this are with out stubpaths... Like .net installs, these key were missing the stubpath which actually executes commands to be run, but to have a version keyI am guessing it is not a good idea to remove items, since some apps check these version keys to make sure you have a proper version of a required component installed... Thus if all keys were deleted installation of apps may give ".net 1.1 not installed" errors...So I guess I will test removing all stubpath keys only... see how that effects new user logins etc. I would be checking for possible configuration changes a user makes might been seen by subsequent users depending if commands in the stubpath are not reseting these configuration area's... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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