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How do I stop users creating shortcuts

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amberman

IS-IT--Management
Nov 23, 2001
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Within the group policy section of AD is there a setting to stop users creating shortcuts. This is a major problem foe me at the moment.

Cheers.
 
Shortcuts have a .lnk extension. You could delet them at startup with a logon script.

You might be able to disable them in the registry.

Rob
 
or create a mandatory profile
when the user logs on again, the mandatory profile will overwrite the user profile... so they can do anything they want, it will be overwritten again... ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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Cheers for that,

What script would do this best?
 
just plain policy & profile settings
(group policy & mandatory profiles tied together) ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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