How to Fix Citrix Users Get a Published Desktop when Launching a Published Application

// October 12th, 2009 // Citrix

I got a call today from someone saying that one particular user was getting a published desktop instead of the application every time she tried to launch an application.  My initial response was one of expletives but after some looking around I figured out what the issue was.  Since it was only one user I knew it was not a server issue.  After poking around her AD Object I discovered that the root cause was someone had checked Start the following program at logon in the Environment tab.  This is a huge issue and causes Citrix and Terminal Services to flake out and just launch a desktop instead.  This is what it should look like for every user:

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