Stopping students creating multiple Icons on desktops

[Bagpuss66]

This has probably been covered before but is there a way of stopping students making multiple copies of desktop icons in windows 7 .

I should imagine it can be done in GPO.

[Norphy]

Probably the easiest way is to redirect their desktop to a location that's read-only for the students.

[Oaktech]

Yeah, lock that desktop.

 

I have it locked for everyone except office staff here.

 

EVERYONE!

[DJ-1701]

Probably the easiest way is to redirect their desktop to a location that's read-only for the students.

 

^^This

 

I create a read only read access folder in the workstation policy and use the student user policy to redirect to that local folder for the desktop.

 

I find it is best to do it that way rather than a UNC path, just in case the UNC path can't be found and they get a temporary desktop that they are able to write to.