Desktop Icons (My computer & User files)

[sbooth87]

Hey guys. Just wanted to ask how you guys are getting the my computer desktop icon and user files icon on the desktops for users? Through task sequence? copy profile? I am having trouble with this. Thanks ahead of time for help.

 

Shane

[SuperElvis]

Personally, I don't mess with it but if I needed to I would use a GPO.

[Lucid]

Just my two cents... We use GPOs to enforce things, but edit the registry to set defaults. So if it's something we don't care if the user changes, we'll use a VBScript to edit the default user profile registry hive. Below isn't the whole script of course, but just to illustrate:

 

strRegPath="USERS\CustomizeRegistry"
objWshShell.Run ("Reg.exe load HKEY_USERS\CustomRegistry """ & Subfolder & """\NTuser.dat"), 0, True
objWshShell.RegWrite "HKEY_" & strRegPath & "\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}","0","REG_DWORD"