Using Control Panel a user can add desktop icons such as Computer or Network to the desktop of her computer. But how do you add such icons to a target computer's desktop during deployment using MDT 2010? To do this, simply add a task sequence step to your task sequence that runs a reg import command imports the following registry entries (.reg) file which you can name icons.reg if you like:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel] "{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}"=dword:00000000 "{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000 "{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000 "{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000
The four icons specified in the .reg file above are respectively as follows: User Account, Computer, Network, and Internet Explorer. If you don't want all of these to appear on the user's desktop, just remove the lines you don't need from the .reg file.
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