Pin to Start Menu

[slice16]

Hello All,

 

I am wanting to pin a shortcut to All Users start menu in Windows 7 using SCCM. I am able to do this pretty easily in XP by creating a program that copies to relevant folder.

 

I have tried by copying to file to C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\StartMenu, but the shortcut doesn't register.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

 

Paul

[Eswar Koneti]

Hello All,

 

I am wanting to pin a shortcut to All Users start menu in Windows 7 using SCCM. I am able to do this pretty easily in XP by creating a program that copies to relevant folder.

 

I have tried by copying to file to C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\StartMenu, but the shortcut doesn't register.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

 

Paul

 

Check this link http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproinstall/thread/aa4420db-ca20-44bb-a30f-f3aa0112ff8d .might help you.

 

There are a few ways...

 

You can configure a default profile which will give you the ability to setup the Start Menu as you want it with the items pinned how you like. However, in my experience customizations done to the Taskbar are not maintained in a default profile.

 

So, one way to get around that would be to create a script and use the "Active Setup" hooks that are built into Windows 7 to achieve the desired results.

 

If you combine this script...

 

http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys/archive/2009/04/08/pin-items-to-the-start-menu-or-windows-7-taskbar-via-script.aspx

 

With Active Setup...

 

http://www.visualbasicscript.com/Active-Setup-Examples-m67461.aspx

 

You can get the results you want to get...

 

Pinned items on the Taskbar have two components, one is in the file system and the other is in the registry. You could also use GPO Preferences to add both components to a new profile and therby get similar results. I played around with this method a little and did get it to work also.

 

 

Mike N.

[slice16]

Thanks Eswar That's exactly what I was after.

 

I needed to deploy it using a Task Sequence and I needed a number of folders creating etc.