Network based menus really slow.
- From: cjohnsonuk <cjohnsonuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:27:37 -0700
We are a school with 600+ PCs. Start menus are stored on the network
and a group policy is used on the user containers in the AD to
redirect the XP workstations to fetch their menus from a server.
However it is really slow.
The menus contain links to software installed locally and to software
installed on the network.
I'm assuming every time someone clicks "start|programs" the PC goes
off and searches every exe for the icons required.
There may be a much better way of doing this.
We considered mandatory profiles but under XP they delete on log out
so this means our staff that use laptops can't use their profiles
offline as they won't exist.
My proposed solution is to copy the menus to the local disk using our
software installation program and reset all the shortcuts to get their
icons from a local file on the PC.
What I want to know is is there a way to reset the icons linked to in
the shortcuts from the command line as we have 3 sets of menus, for
staff, KS3 students and KS4 students. Each menus has 400+ shortcuts
in it so you can see why I want to dio it from the command line rather
than manually. For now I'm not bothered if all the icons are the
same, we just want a proof that the local menus will be faster.
If you can see another way of getting round this that would be
appreciated too.
ChrisJ
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