Can anyone tell me how to put the my computer, my documents and my network places icons on the desktop of an XP computer using a policy.

I can find the section on hiding them in group policy managment but not adding them.

Also i've set the wallpaper to none in the policy but when the computer logs on or off i still get the original wallpaper flashing up is there a way to stop this in the policy.

Thanks

For your first problem, Enable the policy "Force classic start menu" in User Configuration -> Administrative templates -> Start Menu and Taskbar.

This will set your start menu to act and look like the start menu in Win2000, and puts the icons on the desktop.

As for your second problem, wich policy are you using for that?

When logged onto workstation, open cmd and type "gpupdate /force" and see what happens if snothing happens with your wallpaper, then type gpresult and look for the following ..

1. If the policy you try to apply is in User Configuration then

USER SETTINGS

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CN=Test TU. User,CN=Users,DC=IT,DC=TEST,DC=LOCAL

Last time Group Policy was applied: 5/17/2005 at 7:31:00 AM

Group Policy was applied from: sun.IT.TEST.LOCAL

Group Policy slow link threshold: 500 kbps

Applied Group Policy Objects

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Default Domain Policy

2. If the policy you try to apply is in Computer Configuration then

COMPUTER SETTINGS

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CN=IT1,OU=IT Computers,DC=IT,DC=TEST,DC=LOCAL

Last time Group Policy was applied: 5/17/2005 at 7:24:45 AM

Group Policy was applied from: hermes.IT.TEST.LOCAL

Group Policy slow link threshold: 500 kbps

Applied Group Policy Objects

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DNS Settings

Software installation

Default Domain Policy

The following GPOs were not applied because they were filtered out

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Local Group Policy

Filtering: Not Applied (Empty)

here you can see what policies and when they were applied ...