Group Policy Object - disable right click on desktop

[Gweener]

All,

Can anyone think of a group policy that can be created to disable the right click functionality on the desktop (or to disable some of the items in the pop-up menu when a user has right clicked) or to stop a user creating new shortcuts on desktop?

I have a team of 'kids' here who seem beset on using net send to message each other.

I've disabled the messenger service in logon script
disabled command prompt in GPO
disabled notepad, wordpad in GPO (to stop them writing a message and saving it as a batch file).

I don't really want to download any third party software to disable things and would rather use 'standard' 2000 functions to achieve this.

Any help appreciated.

 

[intelwizrd]

The menu that displays when you right click is the context menu that you might have seen in some of the sections within the GPO. I'm not sure and I can't test right now but try disabling the explorer context menu, note that in doing so you will not see anything when right clicking.

hope that helps some or at leasts points you in the right direction.

cheers.

 

[Gweener]

Thanks for that Intelwizrd - your advice allows me to sucessfully disable the right click functionality on the start button or the task bar itself.

Unfortunately, right click functionality still exists on the desktop.

Also, a GPO to disable notepad.exe and wordpad.exe seems to have no effect on users being able to create and edit a text document in notepad......

 

[MSperrin]

Do your kiddies need thier own desktop/start menu? if they don't; setup folder redirection in group policy and then set the permissions to read only for them. This way, when they right click and select new shortcut or text document they will be told access denied.

You could also do this on each users profile but this could be time consuming for you depending on you situation.

Regards
Martin

 

[Gweener]

An interesting option - i'll investigate.

Thanks MSperrin!

 

[h11]

under user config, administrative templates, windows explorer select remove windows explorer default context menu, set to enable. This will disable the right clicking on the desktop. This should work for you.

 

[Gweener]

thanks for picking up on this - this has done the job.

Cheers