Prevent users from deleting desktop shor

Is it really your job to babysit those who can't obey an office policy? Just lay down the law and put it in writing for everyone to read, sign and return to you stating that they understand office computer policies and agree to them.

At this point, if someone deletes EVERYBODY's desktop icon, they'll have to wait until welfare day before meeting you all after work for drinks.

Is it really your job to babysit those who can't obey an office policy? Just lay down the law and put it in writing for everyone to read, sign and return to you stating that they understand office computer policies and agree to them.

At this point, if someone deletes EVERYBODY's desktop icon, they'll have to wait until welfare day before meeting you all after work for drinks.

Have you tried to lock the computer down to where the only thing they could do is log on to the network? Once they log onto the network all info is stored onto the servers. What I am trying to say is that the computers are just a gateway onto the network. Everything is being done via the network drive. The user can not save anything to the desktop just to the network drive. I have done this before when I worked for another company. But that is what they wanted. It is like a roaming profile. It is a little time consuming to do but it is possible. To be honest I can not remember how I had done it. But if had to do it again probable could do it on the fly.

change the offenders profile to a mandatory profile. When they log off, changes are not saved which means they can delete the shortcut when they are logged on but that isn't saved when they log off. When they log on again, the shortcut is there. If you know who they are, when they are logged on, send em a admin message that says "Naughty Naughty" sometime. That ought to get their attention.

Another is to disable changing the desktop in group policy[ with the assumption that this is a W2KServer network with AD ].