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Saturday, October 7, 2017 7:25 AM | 1 vote
Hi All,
We are deploying W10 1703 Ent via a MDT Task sequence. Task sequence just deploys Windows 10 & few Applications. After the installation of applications every time a new user logins to the device the application shortcut on the desktop are scattered they need to right click & auto arrange the icons. This happens when a new user is logged in to the device for the first time once the auto correction is done the settings remains the same.
Is there a way to run any auto arrange command at user login which arranges the shortcuts so user don't have to do this.
Please, Suggest.
Thanks,
Pranay.
All replies (5)
Monday, October 9, 2017 8:25 AM | 1 vote
Hi,
We can use GPP to deploy the registry key in your environment to make auto arrange work always:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\1\Desktop
FFLAGS DWORD
1075839521 = Auto arrange icons = ON and Align icons to grid = OFF
or this value can also work for you:
1075839525 = Auto arrange icons = ON and Align icons to grid = ON
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Monday, October 9, 2017 9:18 AM | 1 vote
Hi, Thanks for the reply.
These devices are managed through Intune & Azure AD. So, group policy is not an option.
A quick question -
Is these registry value related to explorer.exe ? If tried to set the mentioned registry value using bat file & PowerShell script but the explorer freezes or explorer.exe stops working. We found this in some of our testing.
Thanks,
Pranay.
Tuesday, October 10, 2017 9:45 AM | 1 vote
Yep, it's relate to explorer, but I have no such issue when enable this settings.
You can disable this on several test PC to see if the issue can be fixed.
Would you please help to collect the crash dump, upload onto OneDrive for our research?
First enable app crash dump collection by copying following words into notepad, saving it as dump.reg and importing it:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\localdumps\Explorer.EXE]
"DumpFolder"=hex(2):63,00,3a,00,5c,00,63,00,72,00,61,00,73,00,68,00,64,00,75,\
00,6d,00,70,00,73,00,00,00
"DumpCount"=dword:00000010
"DumpType"=dword:00000001
"CustomDumpFlags"=dword:00000000
If crash issue appeared, please find the *.dump file under c:\
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Wednesday, October 11, 2017 10:45 AM | 2 votes
Hi,
After applying the below mentioned changes on few of the test devices.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\1\Desktop
1075839521 = Auto arrange icons = ON and Align icons to grid = OFF
or this value can also work for you:
1075839525 = Auto arrange icons = ON and Align icons to grid = ON
We have to restart explorer.exe to get the icons auto arranged we even tried to restart the device sign out & then sign back in the user but it did not worked and after the restart the registry were set to default. The only way this is working is when we restart the explorer from task manager.
Please suggest.
Thanks,
Pranay.
Monday, October 16, 2017 6:42 AM
Hi,
Just confirm if you change the value of FFLAGS DWORD
How did you deploy the scripts you mentioned?
Would you please try to add command to restart Explorer.exe in your script to check the results?
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