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How can I exclude Start Menu items from being captured and restored using a custom file in USMT 4
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when doing a Refresh from Windows 7 to Windows 7 you may have programs installed on the source computer which are not installed on the destination even if it's the same computer, and as a result you don't want to migrate those unusable shortcuts in the start menu,
here's how you can exclude them and in addition exclude some additional items like files on the desktop (msi/exe) or desktop shortcuts.
wnb.xml
to use the file above, simply specify it in your Capture User State and Restore user State steps or manually specify it using i:\wnb.xml for example as below:-
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