Hi

Ive almost finished my unattended installation. I want to add icons for the following objects to my desktop:

My Computer

My Documents

Internet Explorer

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Publisher

And remove the icons that have been created for Nero and Adobe.

How?

Many thanks in advance,

Oli

My Computer, My documents and Inet Explorer icons are all in shell32.dll.

I use ResHack to change the icons - which also means that you'll have to remove Windows File Protection ( try using nlite to do that ).

As for Microsoft icons iam not sure - never done that, but heres what i think you could do:

I believe that office icons are stored in the .EXE files - so you should actually be able to replace the icons in those .EXE files like you did with the shell32.dll file.

Now in my book all you need to do is the copy your "hacked" .EXE over AFTER you install Word, Excel and Publisher.

To copy files over - try to search the forum - this can be done with WinRAR sfx files.

Let me know if you need more help or links to find the infrmation you need.

Pezzie

He just wants to add the shortcuts to his desktop, not change the icons...

You could've found this one easily, but whatever, here it is. For the My Computer and My Documents icons to show, and all the other Windows icons to hide, use the following regtweak:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
"{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000001
"{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000
"{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}"=dword:00000000
"{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"=dword:00000001
"{FBF23B42-E3F0-101B-8488-00AA003E56F8}"=dword:00000000

For the other shortcuts, use something like shortcut.exe to create them. To delete shortcuts, just use the DEL command in a batch file.

Edit: woops, my bad, the reg tweak should be the other way around. Fixed it now.

Thanks

But that only seems to have added My Network Place?

TIA Oli

For your word, excel, publisher shortcuts, just put the actual shortcut files (.lnk) in

$OEM$\$Docs\All Users\Desktop

on your CD.

To delete the nero and adobe shortcuts, get the filenames and path, and use the del command in your batch-files. For example:

DEL /F /Q "%whateverpath%\foldername\nero burning ROM.lnk"