lexicon Posted July 29, 2004 Posted July 29, 2004 By default all new users created on Windows XP seem to get three shortcuts in Start Menu\Programs:Internet ExplorerMedia PlayerRemote AssistanceI have removed these three shortcuts from the Default User profile and they are not present in the start menu for All Users. It seems that XP creates these shortcuts by default when a new user without a profile logs in. Once removed from the user's profile they stay gone however.Does anyone know how to disable the creation of these three shortcuts for new accounts?
DarkPhoenix Posted July 29, 2004 Posted July 29, 2004 You could have a RunOnceEx entry in the .DEFAULT user's registry... so that a batch file gets executed whenever a new user logs in for the first time and removes them. Not entirely sure how I'd go about doing it though, maybe someone else will have a suggestion?
lexicon Posted August 2, 2004 Author Posted August 2, 2004 That is actually not a bad idea. That would guarantee that the script is only run the first time a new user is created. Thanks for the suggestion.
big_gie Posted August 2, 2004 Posted August 2, 2004 There is a rundll32.exe command line switch to hide certain icons... not sure though
lexicon Posted August 2, 2004 Author Posted August 2, 2004 Which rundll32 switch are you thinking of?
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