Explorer Bar 2

[jsetaro]

Does anyone know how to disable the Explorer bar in IE 6? I need to disable History, Media, Folders, and Favorites. I can remove the buttons, and disable Favorites. But that does not stop users from clicking on View, Explorer Bar, History, etc.

 

[smah]

You could run in full screen (F11). You'd still have to remove the buttons. You could run in kiosk mode by starting IE with the -k switch. It depends on exactly what you're after. Other than the above, that's all I've got. I have seen references to 3rd party tools that can better control these functions.

 

[Rached]

Try this.. BACKUP your registry before implementing it, althought i have tested it myself before and it works fine:

open regedit, browse to the following:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbars\Restrictions

If this is not available then create keys in that order untill you are there. Now add the following DWORD Values:
NoToolbarOptions and set it's value to 1 to enable this restriction, 0 will simply disable this restriction, this key is to disable the ability to change toolbar selection. Then add NoToolBar which will disable the tool bar and also set it's value to 1 for the same reason.

optioanlly do the same thing in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbars\Restrictions
to restrict if for the system if you want. good luck.

 

[jsetaro]

Thank You very much. That helped me from removing Search. But I still have to work on removing access to Folders. Thank You again so much for your help.

 

[Rached]

to disable the favorites folder add the following DWORD key NoFavorites and set it's value to 1 in the following registry path:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions (create it if already not there).

Most likely you would want to restrict the File->Open also, therefore add NoFileOpen in the same place and set it to 1. Additionally add NoBrowserSaveAs to disable File->Save As. One last thing, i would suggest to disable the Tools->Internet Options so add NoBrowserOptions. Remember all these values go under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions now i think you have restricted access to folders from IE. Please mark the post as helpful if it is lol good luck

 

[jsetaro]

I am already able to disable Favorites. What I need now is to disable Folders. It is when you click on View, Explorer Bar, then Folders. You see the contents of your C;, D:, etc.

 

[madonnac]

Try this article - shows how to disable access to drives, as well as the other keys mentioned so far.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;179221

 

[nicks60610]

I tried this on my IE 5.5 as well as using other group policy settings in Windows 2000, but this did not disable the toolbar (File, Edit, View). Any ideas other than using the kiosk mode?

 

[bcastner]

Create a new DWORD value based on the options below, and set the new value to "1" to enable the restriction or "0" to disable the restriction.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions

AlwaysPromptWhenDownload - Always prompt user when downloading files.
NoBrowserBars - Disable changes to browsers bars.
NoBrowserClose - Disable the option of closing Internet Explorer.
NoBrowserContextMenu - Disable right-click context menu.
NoBrowserOptions - Disable the Tools > Internet Options menu.
NoBrowserSaveAs - Disable the ability to Save As.
NoFavorites - Disable the Favorites.
NoFileNew - Disable the File > New command.
NoFileOpen - Disable the File > Open command.
NoFindFiles - Disable the Find Files command.
NoNavButtons - Disables the Forward and Back navigation buttons
NoOpeninNewWnd - Disable Open in New Window option.
NoPrinting - Remove Print and Print Preview from the File menu.
NoSelectDownloadDir - Disable the option of selecting a download directory.
NoTheaterMode - Disable the Full Screen view option.
NoViewSource - Disable the ability to view the page source HTML.
RestGoMenu - Remove Mail and News menu item.
Restart Internet Explorer for the restrictions to take effect.

 

[nicks60610]

Thanks Man, that is great!