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Add/Remove Default Start Menu Items
I'm preparing a Windows 7 image for deployment, and there are a number of items I'd like to change on the Start Menu and Taskbar. Unfortunately, however, these are not items convered under the Tarkbar and Start Menu Properties box.
An out of the box Win 7 installation will have a number of items on the Start Menu by default, but we don't want any of them
These icons are different because they aren't 'pinned' but rather held there like a list of recently used items.
- Getting Started
- displayswitch
- Remote Desktop Connection
- Sticky Notes
- Snipping Tool
- Calculator
- Paint
- Magnifier
As for the Taskbar, the default pinned icons usually include IE, Windows Explorer, Windows Media Player, and perhaps something else, but we only want to keep IE available and unpin the rest.
- How can I clear this?
Despite setting the CopyProfile directive to true in my sysprep unattend file, even though I've fully customized the Admin account, various Start Menu and Taskbar customizations don't replace the Default [User] template profile. To overcome the pin/unpin issue I wrote a script that would run during the user's first logon to do this. (I can link someone if they need/want it.)
Update 6/12: For what its worth, I solved this and posted the solution here
- Is there an easier way to setup default pinned/unpinned items in the Default [User] profile?
SOLVED: How to Pin to Start Menu/Task Bar for Default User
Last edited by Phylum; 12 Jun 2010 at 15:16.