[GRLUG] ritual complaint re Windows

[Bill Littlejohn]

In short, if a user creates a shortcut that points to a location that isn’t
available at the time when the weekly scheduled system maintenance task is
running, the shortcuts are considered as broken and therefore automatically
deleted.

   1. Open gpedit.msc
   2. Go to “Computer Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ System \
   Troubleshooting and Diagnostics”
   3. Double-click “Configure Scheduled Maintenance Behavior”
   4. Enable the policy and set Execution Level to “Troubleshooting Only”



On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Joseph Workman <joseph.workman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ha! That is awesome.
>
> So how are you fixing this little issue ?
>
> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Bill Littlejohn <billl at mtd-inc.com> wrote:
>
>> I rolled out a few win7 machines lately and 2 users called last week to
>> report that most of their desktop shortcuts had been deleted mysteriously.
>> It turns out Win7 scheduled maintenance automatically (by default) deletes
>> any broken shortcuts for you. So if your mapped network drives go offline..
>> all your shortcuts get deleted for you.
>> Awesome. Good job M$.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Don Ellis <don.ellis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, that's consistent at least. They decide what you should want to
>>> do and how you should want to do it, and do it for you. Lots of
>>> surprises, and keeps you on your toes.
>>>
>>> And, each new release of Windows does it differently. Lots of innovation!
>>>
>>> <end sarcasm>
>>>
>>> --Don Ellis
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Eric Beversluis
>>> <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
>>> > I was messing with OneNote when somehow it went and re-arranged all the
>>> > carefully arranged and grouped icons (60-some) on my Windows desktop.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks, Bill Gates.
>>>
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