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I have a few Windows 8.1 computers. They are joined to a domain, and will be shared among multiple users. I want to provide a default arrangement for the tiles on the Windows 8 start menu.
I know I can do this through group policy, but that locks the arrangement in place; it becomes mandatory, rather than simply the default or original layout for each profile. I only want to provide a default that users can change later.
I also want to include a shortcut that I made myself in this layout, and it needs to include an item that's based on network access that is not available to the local administrator account.
How can I get a start menu layout that accomplishes all this?
the layout is stored in a file called appsFolder.itemdata-ms. copy the file to c:\users\default\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows and set it to readonly. – magicandre1981 – 2014-08-26T18:31:52.967
@magicandre1981 You're saying to do this in one profile, and then copy the one from my profile to do the default profile? – Joel Coehoorn – 2014-08-26T19:09:12.400
correct, this is the way to create that file – magicandre1981 – 2014-08-27T04:14:54.927
I've created an answer. – magicandre1981 – 2014-09-13T05:18:46.617