ADDING My Music and My Pictures to the Start Menu

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motert

We've recently moved our users to a SAN. To cut down on space problems
we've redirected My Pictures, My Music and My Videos to the local disk.
On some users computers, these folders are missing from the Start
Menu. Is there any way by Group Policy to add them back?

moter
 
You can use the Group Policy editor (Gpedit.msc) under the following
location to configure Start menu features:
User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Start Menu and Taskbar

Remove My Music icon from Start Menu
http://www.boyce.us/gp/gpcontent.asp?ID=348

Remove My Pictures icon from Start Menu
http://www.boyce.us/gp/gpcontent.asp?ID=347

Policy: Remove user folders from the Start Menu
Description: Removes all user-specific folders except My Documents (My
Pictures, My Music, Favorites, and Recent Documents) from the Start menu.
Also removes the corresponding checkboxes from the Start menu customization
CPL.
Registry Value: This is a combination of the following:
"NoStartMenuMyMusic", "NoSMMyPictures","NoFavoritesMenu","NoRecentDocsMenu"

from...
Policy Settings for the Start Menu in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;292504

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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