Icon on user account desktop before the user has logged in.

Posted by JHamill on Super User See other posts from Super User or by JHamill
Published on 2012-12-17T22:21:01Z Indexed on 2012/12/17 23:05 UTC
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Currently working on a Windows 7 deployment project and I have a requirement to place an RDP icon on a specific users desktop, lets call this user 'Guest'. The image itself will be completely vanilla and all user accounts will be created using commands in the Unattend file. The 'Guest' account will not be a local admin and so it will not be the account used for autologon during the application of the unattend file. As a result of this, the 'Guest' profile will not have been created so I'm unable to simply place the icon at C:\Users\Guest\Desktop. Is there a way to place an icon on this specific users desktop prior to logging in with it?

I know there are ways around this i.e. include this account in the base image and log in with it in order to create the profile but I'd like to keep the base image as vanilla as possible.

Any ideas or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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