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by martin powell

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I have a foler redirection on my Desktop and All Programs folder and wish to disable the right click on the Start Menu > All Programs.
I have successfully removed this feature from the Start Menu and Desktop, and disabled access to Network Browsing, but when a user right clicks on the Start Menu > All Programs, the menu appears that enables the user to open\explore\search the Programs folder. This takes them to the heart of the network share. These are Public facing PC's and will be abused!!

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by switz

This is an easy one:
go to start, run and type: gpedit.msc

You will see the Group Policy Editor opens up. Navigate to the Administrative Templates folder, then to the Windows Components folder and finally to the Windows Explorer folder. Once there, look for the Prevent Access to Drives From My Computer policy. Right click it and click on Enable. Choose your C drive and Apply and OK. This policy will stop anyone (including the administrator) from gaining access to the C drive. Remember, if you need to access the drive, you have to reverse all of the above.

Look at all the items in the Group Policy Editor. I can't tell you how great it locks down a system.

Hope this helps, steve

by switz

One more thing: Use the User Configuration not Computer Configuration. Hope this all helps.

steve

by martin powell

This is enabled, but the folder is redirected to a share on a server and when the user right clicks the All Programs and selects open\explore, the poicly "redirects" to the share and all the related root network neighbourhood components. There are policies set to not allow browing of network from My Computer, but it doesn't seem to help in this circumstance.

by ellen.notehelfer

Under User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Start Menu and Taskbar, enable the policy Remove Drag-and-drop context menus on the Start Menu. In addition to preventing reording of menu items, this policy prevents all context menus from popping-up when the user right clicks an object.

by martin powell

Thanks. It appears to do the job, would you believe I've been searching for that setting for days now...and it was right under my nose the whole time.

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