Disable Edge shortcut creation on desktop
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George King
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I have idea to add script command execution into Active setup to delete it. It should be a good solution that is applied when also when is created new user.
EDIT: Please try to save this as .CMD and execute. And tell me if it remove your desktop icon. If not it must be in diferent folder
If this can delete it, I can post Active setup registry .REG for easy automated removal
EDIT2: This is more deep icon removal for every occurence in users folder
EDIT: Please try to save this as .CMD and execute. And tell me if it remove your desktop icon. If not it must be in diferent folder
Code:
FOR /f "delims=" %%I IN ('dir /s /b /o:n "%SystemDrive%\Users\%UserName%" ^| findstr /i ".lnk" ^| findstr /i "edge"') DO (del /q /s "%%I")If this can delete it, I can post Active setup registry .REG for easy automated removal
EDIT2: This is more deep icon removal for every occurence in users folder
Code:
FOR /f "delims=" %%I IN ('dir /s /b /o:n "%SystemDrive%\Users" ^| findstr /i ".lnk" ^| findstr /i "edge"') DO (del /q /s "%%I")
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George King
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OK, this seems to be easy.
Save as LiveEdgeIconRemoval.reg and import in NTLite. This will remove all *Edge*.lnk in %SystemDrive%\Users. And this is lauched on every new user creation.
Save as LiveEdgeIconRemoval.reg and import in NTLite. This will remove all *Edge*.lnk in %SystemDrive%\Users. And this is lauched on every new user creation.
Code:
; Microsoft Edge Icon removal
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{ffae50fd-8928-4e7e-a0c4-325b0daabae9}]
@="Edge icon removal"
"LocalizedName"="Microsoft Edge"
"IsInstalled"=dword:00000001
"StubPath"="%WinDir%\\system32\\cmd.exe /c \"FOR /f \"delims=\" %I IN ('dir /s /b /o:n \"%SystemDrive%\\Users\" ^| findstr /i \".lnk\" ^| findstr /i \"edge\"') DO (del /q /s \"%I\")\""
"Version"="1,0"
maszd
Member
Hi George King
Thank you for help, but that not working, edge shortcut still created at desktop after windows installation done.
tested with 19043.1023.
TIA.
George King
Active Member
maszd
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George King
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Interesting maybe is Active setup ignored for some reason?
Then try to add this directly into SetupComplete.cmd
Then try to add this directly into SetupComplete.cmd
Code:
FOR /f "delims=" %%I IN ('dir /s /b /o:n "%SystemDrive%\Users" ^| findstr /i ".lnk" ^| findstr /i "edge"') DO (del /q /s "%%I")
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maszd
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George King
Active Member
If you want to run it manually from CMD you need to use %I not %%I. Thats diference in batch. Simply replace %%I with %I when running manually
maszd
Member
Thanks it's worked! but with that command delete all icon, i just need delete only edge shortcut in desktop
George King
Active Member
It delete only file that is *.lnk and matches pattern edge. I tested it on my desktop where is huge set of icons, only *edge*.lnk are removed
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