Customise Quick Launch Bar

[shawry75]

Hi,

I am looking for everyone on our domain to have the same six quick
launch options on the taskbar in Windows XP (SP2), these being

Show Desktop, Internet Explorer, Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint

For example a user would log onto any PC on the domain and these icons
would appear in the quick launch area.

I would also need the bar just wide enough so all those icons were in
view (i.e. you wouldn't have to click on the arrow which displays those
that are hidden)

I have been looking into this the last couple of days but have got
nowhere, there seems to be no registry settings or group policy that
will do this.

Any help would be much appreciated

Cheers,
Chris

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Using VB/API:
Q&A, December 2002:
http://vb.mvps.org/articles/qa200212.asp

Scripting:

"InvokeVerb" method
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...l/reference/objects/folderitem/invokeverb.asp

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hi,

I am looking for everyone on our domain to have the same six quick
launch options on the taskbar in Windows XP (SP2), these being

Show Desktop, Internet Explorer, Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint

For example a user would log onto any PC on the domain and these icons
would appear in the quick launch area.

I would also need the bar just wide enough so all those icons were in
view (i.e. you wouldn't have to click on the arrow which displays those
that are hidden)

I have been looking into this the last couple of days but have got
nowhere, there seems to be no registry settings or group policy that
will do this.

Any help would be much appreciated

Cheers,
Chris

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Wrong thread. Please ignore my earlier post.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Using VB/API:
Q&A, December 2002:
http://vb.mvps.org/articles/qa200212.asp

Scripting:

"InvokeVerb" method
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...l/reference/objects/folderitem/invokeverb.asp

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Chris,

These links may be useful.

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.win2000.active_directory/msg/641a9d686f787178
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment/msg/126b7836bd9cb443

User Data and Settings Management:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/xpusrdat.mspx

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hi,

I am looking for everyone on our domain to have the same six quick
launch options on the taskbar in Windows XP (SP2), these being

Show Desktop, Internet Explorer, Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint

For example a user would log onto any PC on the domain and these icons
would appear in the quick launch area.

I would also need the bar just wide enough so all those icons were in
view (i.e. you wouldn't have to click on the arrow which displays those
that are hidden)

I have been looking into this the last couple of days but have got
nowhere, there seems to be no registry settings or group policy that
will do this.

Any help would be much appreciated

Cheers,
Chris

 

[shawry75]

Thanks that's sorted it, I created a local user with the icons
installed then used this to copy over the default profile, now everyone
who logs on has the same

Cheers, Chris

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

You're welcome Chris.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Thanks that's sorted it, I created a local user with the icons
installed then used this to copy over the default profile, now everyone
who logs on has the same

Cheers, Chris