The icon is probably embedded in the bitmap section in the executable or a
dll of the MSI. You could use resource hacker to edit it out of the actual
executable or dll if you were diligent....
On 5/9/07, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Jim Kenzig ThinHelp.com <> wrote on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 2:03 PM:
>
> I tried, didn't work. This particular msi is tweaked from the provider,
> and
> not following any standards, as standards go with msi-packages.
>
> Both the msi and script in the GPO are at the machine level.
>
>
> > Why don't you edit the MSI to remove the icon from there? Lots of free
>
> > utilities out there that will let you edit MSI's. The other question
> is
> > whether the script is at the machine level in the policy or the user
> level?
> > It depends on where you put it. JK
> >
> >
> > On 5/9/07, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Suppose I have a GPO that I deploy an msi-package with, and I
> also
> have a
> > startup-script in the same GPO. Which of them gets run first?
> The msi
> or
> > the script?
> >
> > Reason for this question is that I'd like to remove the
> desktop-icon
> the
> > msi creates. So far no tweaking of the msi has helped, so I
> revert to
> a
> > rather crude method of running a conditional test in the
> startup-script to
> > test for if the programname.lnk exists in
> > %allusersprofile%\Desktop-folder. If it does, it deletes it
> quietly.
> >
> > Obviously, if the script is run before the msi, there won't be a
> > desktop-shortcut to remove and therefore the icon won't be
> removed
> until
> > the next time the computer is rebooted. Thus the question of
> execution
> > order.
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> > --
> >
> > BW,
> >
> > Sorin
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