Remove IE icon from Quick Launch bar

[kal]

Hi ppl

I would like to know how can I remove Internet Explorer icon from the Quick Launch bar. I've removed the Internet Explorer icon from the desktop by the following key (well I suppose nlite did it like this) :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoInternetIcon"=dword:00000001

Even if I run this command befor first logon via RunOnceEx :

del "%userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Démarrer Internet Explorer.lnk"

icon isn't removed symply because it's added after the first logon.

So, is there any registry key that make the trick or i have to forget about it and keep IE instead of Firefox ?

Regards,

Kal

[Sonic]

When you apply your regfile/batch tweaks ?

(FR: Attention aux accents aussi ! le "é" doit être encodé correctement dans ton batch ... soit avec Wordpad fichier MSDOS, doit en hexa tu remplace par 82)

[kal]

When you apply your regfile/batch tweaks ?

(FR: Attention aux accents aussi ! le "é" doit être encodé correctement dans ton batch ... soit avec Wordpad fichier MSDOS, doit en hexa tu remplace par 82)

I make the app installation via RunOnceEx. I enable TaskBar and make global regtweaks (for HKCU/HKCR only) at T-12 via cmdlines.txt. But the fact is that I can't remove IE icon from Quick Launch bar before the first logon

I don't know if it's possible, maybe if we define a custom NTUSER.DAT ? (i dunno how to do this).

More over, i can't control the order of my icon in the quick launch bar (it isn't ordered alphabetically).

(FR: ouaip j'ai modifé l'accent avec edit sous DOS Mais j'ai lancé une fenetre DOS pendant le RunOnceEx pour voir si le raccourci d'IE était present dans la quick launch bar et il n'y était pas. Il apparait apres le RunOnceEx donc jvois pas comment supprimer...)

[Tomcat76]

This comes from http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=24277.

If you're using winnt.sif, add IEAccess = Off under the [Components] section.

Else, use something to pause the batch file for a while; e.g.: PING 127.0.0.1 -n 9

[Sonic]

Poor method ^^ : In your RunOnceEx creates a bat which creates another batch in "start" folder and it delete itself ... this batch delete the shortcut ...

:: Batch pour RunOnceEx, Create_DeleteIE.bat
@echo off
echo Je crée le fichier bat qui va effacer IE ...
set DeleteIE = "%AllUsersProfile\Menu Démarrer\Programmes\Démarrage\DeleteIE.bat"
echo del /f /q "%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Démarrer Internet Explorer.lnk" >%DeleteIE%
echo del /f /q %0 >%DeleteIE%
echo exit >%DeleteIE%
exit

(fr: oublie toujours pas les accents hein, me fait eu plein de fois ^^)

edit: typos ...

Edited December 6, 2005 by sonic

[kal]

Thank you both for your help, i'm currently trying the winnt.sif method to see if it's just delete the Internet Explorer entry from Start Menu or from StarMenu & Quick Launch bar

Your script is sweet sonic, it's better than the ping method

I'm wondering where Windows store informations about icons order in the Quick Launch. Example:

If we move all icons from Quick Launch bar folder to another folder and then reput them in the Quick Launch bar folder, so icons are alphabetically ordered. By the way, if we move (with mouse) an icon to change his position, how Windows knows his position at the next reboot?

It's not very important, buyt i would like to know

Anyway, problem solved : thanx guys!

Regards,

Kal

Edited December 6, 2005 by kal

[Sonic]

All in registry ... for windows management it's in Explorer\WebView .. and others few key which values aren't usable ... it's generated by windows and manual edit is impossible, we must set the order/setting and export/import regfile ... (and it's hard to find exactly the good key, for me ^^)

IEAccess = off is same as untick Internet Explorer in Add/Remove components from windows, iexplore.exe becomes hidden and all shorcuts are hidden too ... it's perfect for you if you doesn't use ie at all ...

Goodbye.

[kal]

All right Dud'. The only Way I found is to move all files in the Quick Launch bar folder to a temp folder and move them back to the Quick Launch bar folder. So, my icons are alphabetically ordered.

Thanx for the tips'

Kal

[gunsmokingman]

Here is a VBS script that removes IE from the quicklaunch and then deletes it self.

Save As DelIE_QLaunch.vbs

Dim Del,IE

Dim Act : Set Act = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

Dim Fso : Set Fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

IE = "Launch Internet Explorer Browser.lnk" : Del = "DelIE_QLaunch.vbs"

Set colEnvironmentVariables = Act.Environment("Volatile")

strFolder = colEnvironmentVariables.Item("APPDATA") & "\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch"

If Fso.FileExists(strFolder & "\" & IE ) Then Fso.DeleteFile(strFolder & "\" & IE ) End If

If Fso.FileExists(Del) Then Fso.DeleteFile(Del) End If