Default User Network Places

This puts the My Network Places icon on the desktop for any new users created on a computer. For most people, this is pretty useless. For a computer tech, this is useful for having consistent default settings, and doesn’t cause as many issues as copying an existing profile to the default profile.

1. Copy / Paste mynetdeskall.bat into notepad and save as mynetdeskall.bat
2. Copy / Paste mynetdeskall.reg into notepad and save as mynetdeskall.reg in the same directory as mynetdeskall.bat
3. Run mynetdeskall.bat
4. Take a break (you deserve it you 1337 reghacker)

mynetdeskall.bat
echo Loading default user Registry Hive...
reg load HKU\NTUSER "C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\NTUSER.DAT"
echo Importing Internet Explorer desktop shortcut into default user registry...
REG IMPORT mynetdeskall.reg
echo Unloading default user Registry Hive...
reg unload HKU\NTUSER

mynetdeskall.reg
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_USERS\NTUSER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
"{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000