Guest cjohnsonuk Posted September 6, 2007 Posted September 6, 2007 We are a school with 600+ PCs. Start menus are stored on the network and a group policy is used on the user containers in the AD to redirect the XP workstations to fetch their menus from a server. However it is really slow. The menus contain links to software installed locally and to software installed on the network. I'm assuming every time someone clicks "start|programs" the PC goes off and searches every exe for the icons required. There may be a much better way of doing this. We considered mandatory profiles but under XP they delete on log out so this means our staff that use laptops can't use their profiles offline as they won't exist. My proposed solution is to copy the menus to the local disk using our software installation program and reset all the shortcuts to get their icons from a local file on the PC. What I want to know is is there a way to reset the icons linked to in the shortcuts from the command line as we have 3 sets of menus, for staff, KS3 students and KS4 students. Each menus has 400+ shortcuts in it so you can see why I want to dio it from the command line rather than manually. For now I'm not bothered if all the icons are the same, we just want a proof that the local menus will be faster. If you can see another way of getting round this that would be appreciated too. ChrisJ
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