various windows 7 problems

[mrbios]

Right, first problem:

When setting a desktop wallpaper via GPO the desktop is black, if i set the GPO that says "hide and disable all items on the desktop" i can see the wallpaper fine....except now i obviously have no icons

 

Problem two:

Removing the libraries folders from explorer/quick launch/desktop - registry hack

FIXED

 

Problem three:

creating a mandatory profile - did "copy to" on the default user profile, copied it to a remote location, created a DFS share with read and write access for students group, logged a user on and it created a "Student.V2" folder, logged off and set all permissions to read only, edited the ntuser.dat to ntuser.man and then messed about in the registry hive

FIXED

 

Problem four:

Start menu redirection, turned out to be a group policy i had set to not allow user folders

FIXED

 

problem five:

removing "network" and "favorites" section from the explorer navigation pane - both registry hacks

FIXED after alot of registry hacking

 

I take no credit for any of these registry hacks, one was found on here and the other two were found via google, many thanks to those people!

 

This hack will remove the “Network” section from windows explorer navigation pane:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\NonEnum]

{F02C1A0D-BE21-4350-88B0-7367FC96EF3C}"=dword:00000001

 

This hack will remove all traces of the libraries folders:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{2112AB0A-C86A-4ffe-A368-0DE96E47012E}]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{491E922F-5643-4af4-A7EB-4E7A138D8174}]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{7b0db17d-9cd2-4a93-9733-46cc89022e7c}]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{A302545D-DEFF-464b-ABE8-61C8648D939B}]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{A990AE9F-A03B-4e80-94BC-9912D7504104}]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]

“{031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}”=-

 

This hack will remove items from the Favourites section of the navigation pane(though favorites will still remain):

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{323CA680-C24D-4099-B94D-446DD2D7249E}\ShellFolder

Delete both Attributes and PinToNameSpaceTree

Edited November 6, 2009 by mrbios

[mrbios]

Ah ignore problem two, i have the start menus working now, i had "remove user's folders from the start menu" enabled, now disabled and all working fine

 

As simple as it is the desktop wallpaper is becoming the most irritating, once i've got that sorted i have every single setting in place and ready for me to create a mandatory user profile

[JJonas]

try this for starters

 

Managing Roaming User Data Deployment Guide - Vista Horizons

 

I know its Vista but apparently the process is the same

[mrbios]

Cheers, i seem to have created a mandatory user profile now and i think i've fixed my problem with the libraries folder by editing the settings for the registry hive in the mandatory profile

 

So the only problems that remain now are the desktop wallpaper not being displayed when i have desktop icons enabled and not being able to remove the "lock" and "switch user" buttons on the start menu (lock doesn't actually work but it's annoying having it there)

[roty80]

Hi

 

I believe the group policy to disable 'switch user' is:

Computer Policy -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Logon "Hide entry points for Fast User Switching" option and set it to Enabled.

 

I will have a look at our group policy for the lock GPO.

 

Andy

Edited November 6, 2009 by roty80
spelling mistakes

[roty80]

For students we have this group policy set:

 

User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Ctrl+Alt+Del ->

 

'Remove Lock Computer'

 

But I am not sure if it removes it from the start menu too

 

*UPDATE*

Just logged on as a test student. It doesn't remove it from the start menu but when you click it nothing happens.

Edited November 6, 2009 by roty80
updated

[sted]

Cheers, i seem to have created a mandatory user profile now and i think i've fixed my problem with the libraries folder by editing the settings for the registry hive in the mandatory profile

 

So the only problems that remain now are the desktop wallpaper not being displayed when i have desktop icons enabled and not being able to remove the "lock" and "switch user" buttons on the start menu (lock doesn't actually work but it's annoying having it there)

 

couldnt you do the desktop wallpaper in the profiles registry as well?

[mrbios]

couldnt you do the desktop wallpaper in the profiles registry as well?

 

Well i've been looking around and microsoft actually appear to have a bug with the wallpaper GPO and recommend putting the setting in the registry, but that didn't fix it

[mrbios]

Updated my OP to show where i am now, two problems remain, does anyone have any answers to these?

 

I shall commence my software testing as soon as those two problems are fixed, then once i have all my software checked and i know everything is working ok i'll finally be all set for a windows server 2008R2 and windows 7 clients rollout ^_^

[featured_spectre]

I have the issue with the desktop background, I have tried the registry editing, changing the default background etc etc and nothing works as yet.

[mrbios]

I have the issue with the desktop background, I have tried the registry editing, changing the default background etc etc and nothing works as yet.

 

Good to know im not the only one here that's tearing my hair out with it

 

Why is there no simple GPO for turning off and disabling the navigation panel? Seems silly that the simplest of things isn't included, at the moment im chopping and hacking away at the registry like some mad registry lumber jack!

[DrCheese]

Got the background issue on a PC here today as well, I can pick a solid colour but not any wallpapers, choosing them just results in a black screen.

[t_h]

Would be more useful for others if you left the original post how it was.

[DrCheese]

Do you guys have a "default user.v2" set in netlogon, if so did you set a background in that profile?

It seems to be that that is breaking it for us, if I remove the netlogon profile and then logon with a user that's not used the machine, I can change the background to whatever I want.

[mrbios]

Would be more useful for others if you left the original post how it was.

 

I'll edit it soon with all the fixes to what problems i had, before it was just me asking the questions with only one answer in this thread so it wasn't alot of use to anyone as i've found the fixes myself eventually, i've been trying to work on this test domain for the past four days so getting rid of problems rather than leaving them there in a messy muddle just felt like i was clearing my mind a bit EDIT: ive put the questions back in and blended five and six into one question, i'll add the fixes in soon so it might help people EDIT AGAIN: there you go, all the fixes that i have used are on there now, only the registry ones are really of any use to you lot though

 

DrCheese, i don't have the default user.v2 in netlogon, but i do have a mandatory profile in a DFS share which i've edited and added various wallpaper registry entries as well as editing existing ones, nothing has fixed it yet though

Edited November 6, 2009 by mrbios

[mrbios]

Seems my google powers are failing this morning, i seem to be stuck with a "single click" style to files and folders, single clicking opens them, the only GPO i can find is "force windows classic shell" which contains something about single click, but enabling it doesn't seem to disable the single click opening of files and folders

 

What am i doing wrong here?

[mrbios]

Seems i have found the fix to the desktop wallpaper issue, applying the desktop wallpaper GPO and then disabling it with the two active desktop policys set to "not configured"

 

And the desktop wallpaper appears

[featured_spectre]

would you mind taking a screenshot to show us how you did it?

[mrbios]

would you mind taking a screenshot to show us how you did it?

 

I can do a bit later on but for now i can suggest this:

 

This is the exact set of steps i took which made it work, all the items in the Desktop section and the desktop subsection which i normally have enabled which is most, i changed all of them to disabled, (at the time i was changing each setting individuall ALL EXCEPT the one that sets the wallpaper) when i found it didnt work i reenabled them all and disabled only the one that sets the wallpaper and walla the wallpaper appeared.

 

EDIT: See attached, The first is what i had the setting on before i turned it off, the second is what my working settings are

Edited November 9, 2009 by mrbios

[mwnci]

As an alternative to this, you can create the registry key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WallPaper] This is missing by default, but creating it enables your policy to work.

 

Found from this source.

[Affliction]

Anyone else having problems with copying to USB devices on Win7?

 

Every time I try to copy a larg-ish file (e.g. a film or tv show) to a USB stick, ext. HDD etc., it copies the first half increidably fast, then disconnects the device, and every other USB device, apart from the keyboard and mouse. The only way to revive it after this happens is to re-start the PC.

 

Anyone got any suggestions? It's doing my head in