Put something
like the following in a startup script for the OU (or the whole domain as
appropriate) This creates an icon for Word on the desktop - set things like
workingdirectory to your own preference.
I have to say I
think that this is a *really* bad idea - I would say it's much better to either
teach your users how to make their own shortcuts (and put them on the quick
launch bar for preference!) or time how long it takes these people to minimise
(or even close) what they're currently running to get at the desktop shortcut
and compare that to the time taken to get to the start menu
:-)
Set oShell =
WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
sDesktop = oShell.SpecialFolders("desktop")
Set oShellLink = oShell.CreateShortcut(sDesktop & "\Microsoft Word.lnk")
oShellLink.TargetPath = "c:\program files\microsoft office\office10\winword.exe"
oShellLink.Description = "Microsoft Word - word processing package"
oShellLink.WorkingDirectory = "c:\"
oShellLink.iconlocation = "c:\program files\microsoft office\office10\winword.exe,0"
oShellLink.Save
sDesktop = oShell.SpecialFolders("desktop")
Set oShellLink = oShell.CreateShortcut(sDesktop & "\Microsoft Word.lnk")
oShellLink.TargetPath = "c:\program files\microsoft office\office10\winword.exe"
oShellLink.Description = "Microsoft Word - word processing package"
oShellLink.WorkingDirectory = "c:\"
oShellLink.iconlocation = "c:\program files\microsoft office\office10\winword.exe,0"
oShellLink.Save
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 08 December 2003 11:18
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ActiveDir] GPO setting queryAnyone know if there is a GPO setting in w2k server for w2k machines, that will allow me to put a shortcut or two on everyones desktop? The management have decided that clicking on Start/Programs etc is too time consuming, so they want shortcuts to all the commons apps on the users desktops, but it will take forever by hand.Ideas ?Olly
