I wrote a blog post before on how to remove the Edge icon in the Taskbar on Windows 10, https://ccmexec.com/2015/12/removing-the-edge-icon-from-the-taskbar-during-osd/ This post will cover how to use the same scripts and deploy a customized Taskbar instead with the Internet Explorer shortcut instead of the Edge icon. 1. Download the Script from Technet Galleries https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Manage-the-taskbar-remove-c3024e40 2….
Category: Windows 10
Removing the Edge icon from the Taskbar during OSD
This one isn’t pretty but it does work just fine. One of the most common questions I get when we do Windows 10 projects are how to modify the taskbar and to be more specific remove the Edge icon. The configuration of the Taskbar is stored in a big blob in the registry so what…
Windows 10 ADK 10.0.10586 solves the Powershell/.Net bug in WinPE.
Earlier this week the new ADK 10, 10.0.10586 was released or made available on Microsoft Download. I downloaded it as I and many others have had some issues with .Net applications and Powershell scripts in WinPE on X64 UEFI Machines when PXE booting them and the new ADK solves that problem 😀 More on the…
Turn off Flash in both Edge and IE in Windows 10
In Windows 10 there are built-in support for Flash in both Internet Explorer 11 and Microsoft Edge but that doesn’t mean that you should use it! Even if that makes updating the Flash plugin much easier as it is done using Microsoft Update/WSUS/Configuration Manager it is still very many 0-Day vulnerabilities and security issues in…
Customizing the Windows 10 Start Menu and add IE Shortcut during OSD
In my last post I wrote about how to make Internet Explorer the default web browser in Windows 10, now I will cover how to deploy a customized Start Menu during deployment and add a menu item for Internet Explorer the last took a while to figure out how to add the shortcut to Internet…
Replacing default wallpaper in Windows 10 using Script/MDT/SCCM
When deploying Windows 10 one of the most common things you want to do is to modify the default wallpaper. Windows 10 uses different backgrounds depending on the resolution you use. If you use any of the following resolutions, 768 x 1024, 768 x 1366, 1024 x 768, 1200 x 1920, 1366 x 768, 1600…