pow 
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
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I need your help s'il vous plait 
 
I need to stop my Start Menus from doing this: 
 
-Getting out of ABC order 
-Shrinking so ypu have to press those two arrows to make the rest appear. 
 
How do I do this in AD/GPO so that all the PC's in the school will be organised? 
 
Thanks   
 
[Edited on 21-10-2008 by pow]
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pow 
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Found out how to order the start menu using the registry  
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pow 
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Anyone have any other ideas? 
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Aaron 
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You can turn off personalised (sp) menu's in a default policy   
 
2003 server right? and XP client?
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pow 
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Yeah SBS2003 and XPP clients. 
 
I'll look in the default policy when I'm back at work,must have just missed it  
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Aaron 
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Ah...SBS, ours are 2003 Standard Edition Servers. 
 
There's a policy in the User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Start Menu and Taskbars which says "Turn off personalised menus" 
 
I'm looking at ours right now...
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pow 
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Thank you very much mate, i'll look into it when I go back to work
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pow 
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Aaron, 
 
Got it to stop hiding stuff but the menu still isnt in ABC order?  
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John 
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A script to do http://www.theeldergeek.com/sort_start_menu_alphabetically.htm
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pow 
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I've got a script: 
 
reg delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start Menu2" /f /va  
 
 
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John 
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I meant to put a ? at the end of the previous post, did that not work then? 
 
I'm about 99% sure it's just a typo you've made on here while posting but there is a 2 in that script after start menu on the off chance you've not noticed
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pow 
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Thats how it appears on the registry on these machines John - that doesnt work. 
 
 
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