Default User IE Shortcut

This puts an Internet Explorer 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 iedeskall.bat into notepad and save as iedeskall.bat
2. Copy / Paste iedeskall.reg into notepad and save as iedeskall.reg in the same directory as iedeskall.bat
3. Run iedeskall.bat
4. Take a break (you deserve it you 1337 reghacker)

iedeskall.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 iedeskall.reg
echo Unloading default user Registry Hive...
reg unload HKU\NTUSER

iedeskall.reg
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_USERS\NTUSER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
"{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000