Removing Desktop Shortcuts

Andre · Post by **Andre** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:31 pm

How do I remove FireFox shortcut from desktop? Firefox shortcuts appears after reboot. We waont to use ZenWorks NAL Icon instead.
I've tried to direct edit the MSI with no avail. any suggestion?
Any help is appreciated.

ps: u guys doing a great job, Thx!!

bbmason · Post by **bbmason** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 5:52 am

Did you ever find out how to remove the desktop icon? I want to deploy the firefox MSI across our school network, but don't want that desktop icon!

Will_Christie · Post by **Will_Christie** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:49 pm

Look under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT - CLSID and delete the {EC8030F7-C20A-464F-9B0E-13A3A9E97384} key.

You'll also need to delete the same key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - SOFTWARE - Microsoft - Windows - CurrentVersion - Explorer - Desktop - NameSpace.

Finally, with ZENworks, make an app object called "Desktop cleanup" (or somesuch). Look at its properties, and under Distribution Options - Icons/Shortcuts, tell it to delete the "Mozilla Firefox" shortcut (found on our workstations in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop). You can include the removal of the reg entries mentioned above. Run this app object AFTER you've installed the MSI program. (You might want to make an install-only app object, and chain the MSI installer and the desktop clean-up together, in addition to any plugins that you're going to install it with.)

Post by **DraconPern** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:50 pm

I have created a transform file that removes the desktop icon.

mantonson · Post by **mantonson** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:49 pm

Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but where whould I get said transform, and how would I use it? As I understand it, I would apply the transform to the msi file before deploying it, and I'd have to set an option when deploying it via GPO? All I want to do is deploy without that pesky desktop icon.

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Removing Desktop Shortcuts

Cleaning up short-cuts.