Disabling Right-Click on the "Start-Button" 1

[robherc]

I am helping lock-down the workstations on a local school's LAN system and we've been having a *LOT* of trouble with students being ableto modify the contents of the hard disks by Right-Clicking on the "Start Button" and opening windows Explorer. Does anyone know how to disable this???

 

[jsauce]

If this is a Windows 95 machine, You can remove the start button, by double-clicking on the start button and then press the ALT and minus(-) key. Select CLOSE, and then the start button disapears. You have to reboot to restore the start button.

 

[tonykerr]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Use poledit on a win95 cd (policy editor)<br><br>This works for win 9X

 

[reghakr]

Backup the registry and/or export the following keys before making any modifications: <br><br>Open regedit, navigate to: <br>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer <br>Right-click on the Explorer key, choose new&gt;DWORD name it <br>NoChangeStartMenu<br>and give it a value of 1.<br><br>I just posted this additional information on another board, so I'll pass it along here.<br><br>These are additional restricts under the same key as above with a value of 1. I'd suggest you create all the entries with a value of 0, then export the file as indostart.reg so you can easily undoi the restriction to perform maintenance on the machine.<br><br>NoClose <br>NoFavoritesMenu <br>NoFind <br>NoLogOff <br>NoRecentDocsMenu <br>NoRun <br>NoSetFolders <br>NoSetTaskbar <br>NoWindowsUpdate <br>NoViewContextMenu <br><br>right-click on each of these values, choose modify and give them each a value of 1. <br><br>NoStartMenuSubFolders removes subfolder entries from StartMenu <br><br>NoCommonGroups common program groups do not appear on the Start menu <br><br>NoChangeStartMenu removes the abilityright-click on the Start Menu and modify it using the context menu <br><br>NoClose remove the ShutDown option from the Start Menu <br><br>NoFavoritesMenu hide Favorites on Start Menu <br><br>NoFind remove the Find command from the Start Menu <br><br>NoLogOff remove logoff [username]... from Start Menu <br><br>NoRecentDocsMenu hide Recent documents on Start Menu <br><br>NoRun remove the Run command from the Start menu <br><br>NoSetFolders hide Settings¦Control Panel and Settings¦Printers on the Start Menu <br><br>NoSetTaskbar hide Settings¦Taskbar on the Start Menu; only Drag/Drop can be used to alter Start Menu and Desktop <br><br>NoWindowsUpdate removes Windows update from Start Menu¦Settings <br><br>NoViewContextMenu disable context menus for the desktop, start button, and explorer <br><br>reghakr<br>