Google Chrome Enterprise shortcuts not disappearing!!
Hi all,
I am in the process of packaging Google Chrome Enterprise version 66.65.49287 and I am having great difficulty ensuring shortcuts are not installed on the desktop or taskbar for each user.
I am using the vendor supplied msi and have not captured the install. I am aware that this msi is simply a wrapper for the setup exe which google created.
I have then created a transform based on this -
I have a custom action which removes the shortcut from c:\Users\Public\Desktop\Google Chrome.lnk. However, once I log in as a new user after installing the application the desktop shortcut gets created. Then when I log back in as the administrator or user that installed the application I get the shortcut again on the desktop. Google is somehow recreating the shortcut in the Public Desktop location.
I have looked everywhere and the advice I am seeing is to use the master_preferences file to ensure the shortcuts don't get installed in the relevant locations, be it
"do_not_create_taskbar_shortcut":true
"do_not_create_desktop_shortcut":true
or
"do_not_create_any_shortcuts" : true
The only one which seems to work is the one that doesn't create it in the taskbar. Has anyone experienced this? How do I ensure that the shortcut only gets installed to the Start Menu?
What I have so far is a master_preferences file which looks like the following installed to C:\Program Files(x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\master_preferences.
{
"homepage" : "http://www.google.com",
"show_home_button" : true,
"homepage_is_newtabpage" : false,
"browser" :
{
"show_home_button" : true,
"check_default_browser" : false,
"window_placement": {
"bottom": 1000,
"left": 10,
"maximized": false,
"right": 904,
"top": 10,
"work_area_bottom": 1010,
"work_area_left": 0,
"work_area_right": 1680,
"work_area_top": 0
}
},
"bookmark_bar" :
{
"show_on_all_tabs" : true
},
"distribution" :
{
"skip_first_run_ui" : true,
"show_welcome_page" : false,
"import_search_engine" : false,
"import_history" : false,
"do_not_create_taskbar_shortcut":true,
"do_not_create_desktop_shortcut": true,
"do_not_create_quick_launch_shortcut": true,
"do_not_create_any_shortcuts" : true,
"do_not_launch_chrome" : true,
"do_not_register_for_update_launch": true,
"make_chrome_default" : false,
"msi": true,
"system_level": true
}
}
Any advice?
I am in the process of packaging Google Chrome Enterprise version 66.65.49287 and I am having great difficulty ensuring shortcuts are not installed on the desktop or taskbar for each user.
I am using the vendor supplied msi and have not captured the install. I am aware that this msi is simply a wrapper for the setup exe which google created.
I have then created a transform based on this -
I have a custom action which removes the shortcut from c:\Users\Public\Desktop\Google Chrome.lnk. However, once I log in as a new user after installing the application the desktop shortcut gets created. Then when I log back in as the administrator or user that installed the application I get the shortcut again on the desktop. Google is somehow recreating the shortcut in the Public Desktop location.
I have looked everywhere and the advice I am seeing is to use the master_preferences file to ensure the shortcuts don't get installed in the relevant locations, be it
"do_not_create_taskbar_shortcut":true
"do_not_create_desktop_shortcut":true
or
"do_not_create_any_shortcuts" : true
The only one which seems to work is the one that doesn't create it in the taskbar. Has anyone experienced this? How do I ensure that the shortcut only gets installed to the Start Menu?
What I have so far is a master_preferences file which looks like the following installed to C:\Program Files(x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\master_preferences.
{
"homepage" : "http://www.google.com",
"show_home_button" : true,
"homepage_is_newtabpage" : false,
"browser" :
{
"show_home_button" : true,
"check_default_browser" : false,
"window_placement": {
"bottom": 1000,
"left": 10,
"maximized": false,
"right": 904,
"top": 10,
"work_area_bottom": 1010,
"work_area_left": 0,
"work_area_right": 1680,
"work_area_top": 0
}
},
"bookmark_bar" :
{
"show_on_all_tabs" : true
},
"distribution" :
{
"skip_first_run_ui" : true,
"show_welcome_page" : false,
"import_search_engine" : false,
"import_history" : false,
"do_not_create_taskbar_shortcut":true,
"do_not_create_desktop_shortcut": true,
"do_not_create_quick_launch_shortcut": true,
"do_not_create_any_shortcuts" : true,
"do_not_launch_chrome" : true,
"do_not_register_for_update_launch": true,
"make_chrome_default" : false,
"msi": true,
"system_level": true
}
}
Any advice?
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Posted by:
mark_holland21
8 years ago
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OK, I think I've figured it out. It seems I was applying too many solutions at once.
If I exclude installing the First Run file for the user and only use the master_preferences file, Google Chrome installed a shortcut into the Start Menu and no where else which is the desired behaviour. This is also the case for new users logging on to the same box.
However, I still had to have a script to remove the shortcut from the Public Desktop on install but other than that I just used the custom master_preferences file -
{
"homepage" : "http://www.google.com",
"show_home_button" : true,
"homepage_is_newtabpage" : false,
"browser" :
{
"show_home_button" : true,
"check_default_browser" : false,
"window_placement": {
"bottom": 1000,
"left": 10,
"maximized": false,
"right": 904,
"top": 10,
"work_area_bottom": 1010,
"work_area_left": 0,
"work_area_right": 1680,
"work_area_top": 0
}
},
"bookmark_bar" :
{
"show_on_all_tabs" : true
},
"distribution" :
{
"skip_first_run_ui" : true,
"show_welcome_page" : false,
"import_search_engine" : false,
"import_history" : false,
"do_not_create_any_shortcuts" : true,
"do_not_launch_chrome" : true,
"do_not_register_for_update_launch": true,
"make_chrome_default" : false,
"msi": true,
"system_level": true
}
}
If I exclude installing the First Run file for the user and only use the master_preferences file, Google Chrome installed a shortcut into the Start Menu and no where else which is the desired behaviour. This is also the case for new users logging on to the same box.
However, I still had to have a script to remove the shortcut from the Public Desktop on install but other than that I just used the custom master_preferences file -
{
"homepage" : "http://www.google.com",
"show_home_button" : true,
"homepage_is_newtabpage" : false,
"browser" :
{
"show_home_button" : true,
"check_default_browser" : false,
"window_placement": {
"bottom": 1000,
"left": 10,
"maximized": false,
"right": 904,
"top": 10,
"work_area_bottom": 1010,
"work_area_left": 0,
"work_area_right": 1680,
"work_area_top": 0
}
},
"bookmark_bar" :
{
"show_on_all_tabs" : true
},
"distribution" :
{
"skip_first_run_ui" : true,
"show_welcome_page" : false,
"import_search_engine" : false,
"import_history" : false,
"do_not_create_any_shortcuts" : true,
"do_not_launch_chrome" : true,
"do_not_register_for_update_launch": true,
"make_chrome_default" : false,
"msi": true,
"system_level": true
}
}
Comments:
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This worked like a charm. I did had to copy over the default master_preferences file before InstallFinalize as it was creating it's own. Thanks Mark. - wous 8 years ago
Posted by:
mark_holland21
8 years ago
I must add too that I've also installed the First Run file to the user profile to AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data and this doesn't seem to stop the shortcut getting created. I was under the impression that this file, if present, would tell Google not to install the desktop shortcut as it thinks it's already been run.
Posted by:
EdT
8 years ago
Have you had a look in the application event log for the time that icons get recreated when you run the app in your various tests?
This might give you an indication of what is triggering the "repair".