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We re-did our GPO's and hid the clock in the system tray. &nbsp;We then undid the GPO and new users will get a clock on their desktop but it won't show up for old users who had it before. &nbsp;Any thoughts?<br />
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Would it have been better to do this with Group &nbsp;Policy Preferences than a GPO?
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We re-did our GPO's and hid the clock in the system tray.  We then undid the GPO and new users will get a clock on their desktop but it won't show up for old users who had it before.  Any thoughts?

Would it have been better to do this with Group  Policy Preferences than a GPO?

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