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Alex
Asked: 2011-02-25 10:58:31 +0800 CST

Customising Start Menu programs using GPO

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Theres so much junk in the "All Programs" section of Windows these days. I'm trying to customise it so that it just shows a restricted list of relevant apps to the users. I'm using Server 2003 and Win 7 clients. I'm managed to remove everything using

User Configuration / Policies / Administrative Templates / Start Menu and Taskbar / Remove All Programs List from the start menu

I've then tried to add the shortcust back in using:

Preferences / Windows Settings / Shortcuts / Shortcut (Path: %StartMenuDir%\Application.ink)

However this hasn't worked and the start menu is blank, whats the best way to go about customising the programs in the start menu?

windows-server-2003 group-policy users

1 Answers

  1. http://gps.cloudapp.net/ is a live saver sometimes when looking for GPO options.

    I used the following search term "start menu\programs"

    I think a combination of these might help you out:

    Remove common program groups from Start Menu Remove Default Programs link from the Start menu. Remove Documents icon from Start Menu Remove Downloads link from Start Menu Remove Drag-and-drop context menus on the Start Menu Remove Favorites menu from Start Menu

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