Registry hack for no rightclick shortcut

You can find the procedure at:

www.ntfaq.com/

Type context menu in the search box. Here is the full path to the answer, there are no spaces in the URL

www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=13602

"Q. How do I disable the context menu for the Start button?

A. The context menu if displayed when you right click on an object. If you right click on the Start button you get options to start explorer, find etc. To disable this perform the following:

Start the registry editor (regedit.exe)
Move to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell
Delete the keys under this, for example DosHere, find
Move to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell
Delete the keys under this, for example explore, open
Right clicking on Start will nowhave removed these options.

To disable the context menu entirely perform the following

Start the registry editor (regedit.exe)
Move to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
From the Edit menu select New - DWORD Value
Enter a name of NoTrayContextMenu and press Enter
Double click the new value and set to 1.
To re-enable the Context menu you would set to 0. Logout and in again for this to take effect."

With NT4 you could limit the exes that users could run using a policy. Maybe this can be done for Win9x clients as well.

Thsi works well if you only need users to run standard apps, Office, mail etc and nothing much else otherwise it can become awkward to manage.

Gavin

A little utility for this can be found @ http://home.plutonium.net/~bjackson/

enjoy!!!1

Try this utility

Registry Robot

http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=1478&a=26474,00.asp

I believe TweakUI has this ability. I had to strip a bunch of machines down to the bare essentials for running one particular application and I believe I was able to disable the right-click menu as one of these options.

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