Windows 7 - Old / Outdated Stored Redirected Start Menus ???

[burgemaster]

Does anyone please know where Win7 Stores the start menu?

 

We have start menus for staff redirected from "SERVER\StaffStartMenus". 95% of the time this is working perfectly, but on three occassions now some staff have either:

Completely incorrect old start menus, or

when a new item is added to the start menu share it not appearing for them. They are getting an outdated start menu from somewhere..

 

I have managed to fix it by clearing there profiles, but where are these outdated start menus getting stored please?

 

I guess in there ntuser.dat / profiles?????

[pritchardavid]

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

 

Sound like your not redirecting the startmenu and there getting a local copy

[somabc]

You can use the environment variable as well

 

%appdata%\microsoft\windows\start menu\

[mrbios]

Check their user profile hive, there's a registry setting in there you can hard code if you like so if for some reason it doesn't pickup the GP it'll pick it up from there.

 

I think i remember reading that it's not really advised to do that (?) but personally, while i've not had any problems with GP redirect it's a backup incase it fails for any reason.

[tommej]

Also try disabling the sync center

 

Do this manually, control panel -> sync center -> manage offline files -> disable offline files. The GPO just seems to 'disable' the button.