How to Remove "Internet Explorer (64-bit)" Shortcut from Windows 7 Start Menu
I am looking for a way of removing the "Internet Explorer (64-bit)" shortcut from the 'Start\All Programs' folder in a Windows 7 image.
Our customer wants us to remove the shortcut from our image which we are creating using MDT.
We have tried using Group Policy Preferences to delete the icon but have had no success.
Any ideas would be gratefully received.Jonathan Conway | My blog: Conway's IT Blog | Twitter:
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May 21st, 2012 9:25am
Depends on how the shortcut was created or where the shortcut comes from: from an existing Profile or from the Default profile when a new user profile was created or was it created by the installation routine?
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May 21st, 2012 9:53am
That's what I'm trying to assertain as part of finding a solution to this.
The shortcut is there by default when you install 64-bit Windows and I've tried removing it from "Default" user but that doesn't resolve the problem. So it looks like it is created by Windows Setup.Jonathan Conway | My blog: Conway's IT Blog | Twitter:
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May 21st, 2012 10:01am
So it looks like it is created by Windows Setup.
We struggled with a similar problem. If I remember well, we removed the shortcut from "Default" profile by our software deployment afterwards - when the whole installation process was completed. (But in some cases suddenly it was back again.)
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May 21st, 2012 11:11am
Hi,
How about
prevent Internet Explorer from being pinned to Taskbar and Start Menu. You can try modify related registry to make Internet Explorer unavailable for pinning to the taskbar or for inclusion
in the Start menu's MFU list.
More detail, you can refer this article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd378459(VS.85).aspx#exclusion_lists
Hope that helps.
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Hi,
How about
prevent Internet Explorer from being pinned to Taskbar and Start Menu. You can try modify related registry to make Internet Explorer unavailable for pinning to the taskbar or for inclusion
in the Start menu's MFU list.
More detail, you can refer this article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd378459(VS.85).aspx#exclusion_lists
Hope that helps.
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Thanks for your response but I've already seen that article. I'm afraid this isn't the issue - the taskbar has the 32-bit shortcut for Internet Explorer which we want to keep (i.e. we have no requirement to remove the taskbar item) and the 64-bit
shortcut on the Start Menu isn't an MFU, it's a proper shortcut on the root of the "Start\All Programs" menu.Jonathan Conway | My blog: Conway's IT Blog | Twitter:
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May 22nd, 2012 4:17am
Hi,
I am trying to involve someone familiar with this topic to further look at this issue.
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May 22nd, 2012 10:25pm
Hi Jonathan,
Please have a test with following steps, thanks for your time.
Delete the following to prevent the 64bit shortcuts from being created:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\>{26923b43-4d38-484f-9b9e-de460746276c}\Stubpath
Delete the following to prevent the 32bit shortcuts from being created:
HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\>{26923b43-4d38-484f-9b9e-de460746276c}\Stubpath
Best Regards,
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May 23rd, 2012 5:45am
Hi Jonathan,
Please have a test with following steps, thanks for your time.
Delete the following to prevent the 64bit shortcuts from being created:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\>{26923b43-4d38-484f-9b9e-de460746276c}\Stubpath
Delete the following to prevent the 32bit shortcuts from being created:
HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\>{26923b43-4d38-484f-9b9e-de460746276c}\Stubpath
Best Regards,
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I'd seen an article with this one before and when we tried the 64-bit key we found it caused issues with the 32-bit shortcuts! In the end we had to revert as the 64-bit key removed all of the IE9 entry points on the machine.Jonathan Conway | My blog: Conway's IT Blog | Twitter:
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May 23rd, 2012 9:13am
Hi Jonathan,
Could you please refer to following links for reference:
Pin Items to the Start Menu or Windows 7 Taskbar via Script
http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2009/04/08/pin-items-to-the-start-menu-or-windows-7-taskbar-via-script.aspx
How To: Customize the Windows 7 Start Menu and Taskbar Using unattend.xml
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2010/03/16/how-to-customize-the-windows-7-start-menu-and-taskbar-using-unattend-xml.aspx
Thanks.
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May 30th, 2012 6:45am
Hi Jonathan,
Could you please refer to following links for reference:
Pin Items to the Start Menu or Windows 7 Taskbar via Script
http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2009/04/08/pin-items-to-the-start-menu-or-windows-7-taskbar-via-script.aspx
How To: Customize the Windows 7 Start Menu and Taskbar Using unattend.xml
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2010/03/16/how-to-customize-the-windows-7-start-menu-and-taskbar-using-unattend-xml.aspx
Thanks.
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Hi Kevin.
I've seen both of these articles before unfortunately. They are both focused on "adding" items as opposed to removing them.<o:p></o:p>
I guess what I'm really looking for is someone who has actually accomplished what I am trying to achieve and who can demonstrate exactly how they did it.<o:p></o:p>
So far I am starting to think that this might not be possible to do.Jonathan Conway | My blog: Conway's IT Blog | Twitter:
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May 30th, 2012 9:09am