I know you can reverse the hiding of items in Control Panel, a quick search didn't find anything about restoring other start menu items. Can you "load up" and modify the image prior to rolling it out? Again you may have to reverse each item by hand.
Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com <mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com> From: Wilhelm, Scott [mailto:swilh...@mcs.k12.ny.us] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 Start Menu Items - Clear removed items? No, that's not what I'm saying. In Windows 7, you can remove items from the start menu by right clicking and removing the item permanently. Unfortunately, while we were setting up our base image, we didn't realize this at first and removed some links to programs link Microsoft Word or others like that (no, not uninstalled, just removed the link). I'm just trying to figure out if anyone knows how to clear that list of removed items out so that before we image these systems we can clear it out so that the end user can personalize the list themselves. Thank you, Scott From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 Start Menu Items - Clear removed items? Maybe I'm not thinking clearly this morning but, I don't quite understand the question. Did you remove the shortcuts to unwanted programs from the Start menu and now want them back? And, do you mean that somehow removing these shortcuts also uninstalled the associated programs completely? There's probably a way to "reset" how the menu looks, but if it's something caused by a program install (such as a shortcut to Word) that's going to have to be done by hand (or maybe scripted). Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com From: Wilhelm, Scott [mailto:swilh...@mcs.k12.ny.us] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 9:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 7 Start Menu Items - Clear removed items? Hello: Does anyone know how to, In Windows 7, clear the personal settings for programs listed in the start menu that have been removed? There's programs that we removed as we worked on the image initially, but realized afterwards that in our attempt to ensure the user had a clean start menu, we may have also permanently removed those items for them. How would we clear that out? Also, I'm working on a Windows 7 image that will be deployed throughout our school district, and I wanted to see if anyone had any tips, tricks or suggestions for doing so. I'm curious to see what sort of options/hacks are out there that others have found that could be useful in a large network/school setting. Thank you, Scott --- Scott Wilhelm Computer Technician Massena Central School District St. Lawrence-Lewis BOCES (315) 764-3700 ext. 3046 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
