Getting the new-style Start menu back again

[Guest]

Until now we've been using the Windows 2000 style Start menu on our XP
machines. Mainly from a training perspecrtive, our users found it more
familiar when we upgraded them to XP. I set the "Force Classic Start Menu"
group policy and set the classic theme on the staff GPO and all was well.

Anyway, the time's come to switch to the new Luna theme and new-style Start
menu. Again, through GP I've set the Luna theme (which applies successfuilly)
but setting the "Force Classic Start Menu" item to be "Disabled" isn't
restoring the new Start menu. It just allows people to manually change
between the two, which isn't what I want.

Anyone come across this, or know how to fix it?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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Until now we've been using the Windows 2000 style Start menu on our XP
machines. Mainly from a training perspecrtive, our users found it more
familiar when we upgraded them to XP. I set the "Force Classic Start
Menu" group policy and set the classic theme on the staff GPO and all
was well.

Anyway, the time's come to switch to the new Luna theme and new-style
Start menu. Again, through GP I've set the Luna theme (which applies
successfuilly) but setting the "Force Classic Start Menu" item to be
"Disabled" isn't restoring the new Start menu. It just allows people
to manually change between the two, which isn't what I want.

Anyone come across this, or know how to fix it?

Run rsop.msc and look for errors - and I'd suggest you post this in
microsoft.public.windows.group_policy, as the issue is really with the GPO
being applied properly.

Personally, I will stick with the classic interface - I can't stand that
Fisher Price resource-hogging junk! I turn off pretty much all the XP
interface stuff via GPO. That's just me, of course.

 

[Guest]

I'm with you on that. I personally don't like the new version, but we ran a
survey of users and 80% preferred to use the same as they have at home. Not
my call!

I've run the RSoP and it comes back as it should - the "Force Classic Start
Menu" item is Disabled.

I'll look into that other newsgroup, cheers for the heads-up.

 

[Michael Bednarek]

Until now we've been using the Windows 2000 style Start menu on our XP
machines. Mainly from a training perspecrtive, our users found it more
familiar when we upgraded them to XP. I set the "Force Classic Start Menu"
group policy and set the classic theme on the staff GPO and all was well.

Anyway, the time's come to switch to the new Luna theme and new-style Start
menu. Again, through GP I've set the Luna theme (which applies successfuilly)
but setting the "Force Classic Start Menu" item to be "Disabled" isn't
restoring the new Start menu. It just allows people to manually change
between the two, which isn't what I want.

Anyone come across this, or know how to fix it?

I believe XP PCs joined to a Domain can only use the Ctrl+Alt+Del logon
screen.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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I'm with you on that. I personally don't like the new version, but
we ran a survey of users and 80% preferred to use the same as they
have at home. Not my call!

I've run the RSoP and it comes back as it should - the "Force Classic
Start Menu" item is Disabled.

I think you want to change it to be not defined ....

I'll look into that other newsgroup, cheers for the heads-up.

Good luck !