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Registry Hives in Windows 2000

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by nicolaspt 1 view

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Folks,

I just want to disable the LAN "Proxy Settings" of Internet Explorer through Win2000 registry. We are connected to LAN and was able to surf ONLY the INTRANET without having a Proxy Server in the proxy settings field.
I want to limit totally all my users not to surf the INTERNET but these users are wise enough to know our Proxy Server thats why I want to disable the LAN Proxy Settings field. All my users are running on Win2000 machines.
Hope you can help me on my problem.

Thanks

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by quintar51

Hi,

you can use group policy to prevent them from changing any proxy settings.

If you're in a domain, you'll have to edit the domain policy, if you're in a workgroup, you'll need to edit each computer's local policy.

Regardless, once you are in group policy, go to User Configuration -> Administrative templates -> Windows Components -> Internet Explorer. Look for DISABLE CHANGING PROXY SETTINGS. Just enable that and then the proxy settings will be grayed out.

Make sure you don't give Administrator 'apply group policy' right, or else the administrator will also be affected.

good luck,

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