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Hiding Icons and Menu Items Per User

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by mordacity

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We recently implemented Remote Desktop on our Win2K Server, and that's working great. However, there are only 2 applications our remote users will need to have access to, so I'd like to have a desktop with just those 2 icons and a start menu with nothing but 'Shut Down'. I know how to do all that with gpedit.msc, but the problem is, when I'm here at the office, logged in as an admin, I don't want my desktop and start menu changed. So, basically, I need to hide icons and start menu items on a per-user basis. Preferrably using method that would allow me to export and import those settings, so when I have to set up a new user it's not going step-by-step again and hoping I don't forget something. Any ideas?

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by p.j.hutchison

Copy all the icons from All Users\Start Menu\program s to the Administrator and your accounts.

Copy the icons to the All Users\Desktop (or alt. the Default User\Desktop) profile.

Use GPEdit to remove the other options from the Start menu.

by mordacity

I appreciate the help, but that still leaves the icons for "My Computer", "Network Neighborhood", etc. I need to hide those per user - I also don't want to remove the start menu items (like Settings and Documents) from the Administrator start menu, and GPEdit is removing them from everyone.

by scottjparr

If you want simply turning off classic mode will hide the icons like my computer, network neighborhood etc...

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