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I have installed XPSP2, setup my default user profile and Administrator
profile exactly the way I want it. I sysprepped it with sysprep 2.0. I reboot
the PC and let mini-setup run through it's course. I logon as Administrator,
and sysprep has immediately played with my desktop. It has two icons on the
desktop that I don't want there (Windows Media Player and MSN Explorer).
The first logon after sysprep seems to be the worst. The Administrator
account is not a new account that can pull off the custom "default user"
profile, so the Administrator account that you might of setup with custom
settings becomes completely jacked up with what sysprep wants to do with it
(which is put icons everywhere (Start Menu, Desktop). This ain't cool,
because if you want to setup a corporate image, you have to setup all these
registry settings in the [GUIRunOnce] section of sysprep.inf to get your
Administrator profile halfway back to where you had it before sysprep
stripped it out.
Boy, do I remember the "good ole Windows 2000 days" when sysprep and
Microsoft didn't intervene on your profile settings.
Anyway, my questions are these:
1) What version of Sysprep started adding icons to the Desktop and Start Menu?
2) Media Player seems to generate itself on a new user's desktop. Why is this?
3) What part of the registry is causing Media Player to generate itself on
every user's desktop? Does it have to do with JIT Active Setup (Just InTime
Installer)?
3) Maybe i'm missing something here, but i've tried to get sysprep to not
mess with my Administrator profile (which is the first profile I use after
sysprepping an OS), The only way I've been able to get it back to the custom
Administrator profile I want, is to tweak the registry to clear the MRU-Most
Recently Used list on the Start Menu and remove MSN Exlplorer icon from the
"All Users" profile, etc. Is there another way? Am I doing it wrong?
The way Microsoft pushed these Out of the box Start Menu/Desktop icons onto
a Windows Professional Desktop, with their Sysprep utility, it makes me think
the "Professsional" product they are trying to push is not really for the
corporation environment. If you have to go through hoops as an Admin to
uninstall a bunch of programs (like Windows Media Player) and clear icons
from Start Menu's & Desktop's via the registry, to have a semi-professional
Corporate feel, then Microsoft has stepped over the line with their
"Professional" product marketing. This type of pushing "Windows Media Player"
down OEM and Corporations throats is not right. Windows Media Player is for
fun and games and doesn't deserve to be pushed onto each user's profile when
they log into their corporate PC for the first time. It such a waste of time
for a System Administrator to have to force group Policy to stop Windows
Media Player from auto-generating itself onto a new user's desktop when
Windows Media Player is for "Home" not "Work".
Microsoft, please put the game "Pinball" on the desktop of your Vista
Professional produst when it comes out and make sure the "Pinball" shortcut
auto-generate's itself so that each time a user logs in, they receive the
"Pinball" game. Please make sure you force the "pinball" game on us, and make
sure the System Admins of corporate America use group policy to stop endusers
from screwing off and playing "pinball" on corporate time.
Also please add a few "full-featured" pornos to your Windows Media Player
when Vista comes out and make sure you "pin" them to our Start Menu so we can
reach them "fast". Thank You!
Best Regards,
Rick Blake
profile exactly the way I want it. I sysprepped it with sysprep 2.0. I reboot
the PC and let mini-setup run through it's course. I logon as Administrator,
and sysprep has immediately played with my desktop. It has two icons on the
desktop that I don't want there (Windows Media Player and MSN Explorer).
The first logon after sysprep seems to be the worst. The Administrator
account is not a new account that can pull off the custom "default user"
profile, so the Administrator account that you might of setup with custom
settings becomes completely jacked up with what sysprep wants to do with it
(which is put icons everywhere (Start Menu, Desktop). This ain't cool,
because if you want to setup a corporate image, you have to setup all these
registry settings in the [GUIRunOnce] section of sysprep.inf to get your
Administrator profile halfway back to where you had it before sysprep
stripped it out.
Boy, do I remember the "good ole Windows 2000 days" when sysprep and
Microsoft didn't intervene on your profile settings.
Anyway, my questions are these:
1) What version of Sysprep started adding icons to the Desktop and Start Menu?
2) Media Player seems to generate itself on a new user's desktop. Why is this?
3) What part of the registry is causing Media Player to generate itself on
every user's desktop? Does it have to do with JIT Active Setup (Just InTime
Installer)?
3) Maybe i'm missing something here, but i've tried to get sysprep to not
mess with my Administrator profile (which is the first profile I use after
sysprepping an OS), The only way I've been able to get it back to the custom
Administrator profile I want, is to tweak the registry to clear the MRU-Most
Recently Used list on the Start Menu and remove MSN Exlplorer icon from the
"All Users" profile, etc. Is there another way? Am I doing it wrong?
The way Microsoft pushed these Out of the box Start Menu/Desktop icons onto
a Windows Professional Desktop, with their Sysprep utility, it makes me think
the "Professsional" product they are trying to push is not really for the
corporation environment. If you have to go through hoops as an Admin to
uninstall a bunch of programs (like Windows Media Player) and clear icons
from Start Menu's & Desktop's via the registry, to have a semi-professional
Corporate feel, then Microsoft has stepped over the line with their
"Professional" product marketing. This type of pushing "Windows Media Player"
down OEM and Corporations throats is not right. Windows Media Player is for
fun and games and doesn't deserve to be pushed onto each user's profile when
they log into their corporate PC for the first time. It such a waste of time
for a System Administrator to have to force group Policy to stop Windows
Media Player from auto-generating itself onto a new user's desktop when
Windows Media Player is for "Home" not "Work".
Microsoft, please put the game "Pinball" on the desktop of your Vista
Professional produst when it comes out and make sure the "Pinball" shortcut
auto-generate's itself so that each time a user logs in, they receive the
"Pinball" game. Please make sure you force the "pinball" game on us, and make
sure the System Admins of corporate America use group policy to stop endusers
from screwing off and playing "pinball" on corporate time.
Also please add a few "full-featured" pornos to your Windows Media Player
when Vista comes out and make sure you "pin" them to our Start Menu so we can
reach them "fast". Thank You!
Best Regards,
Rick Blake