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Win98se / Network Neighbourhood

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by hpoppe

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I am looking for a registry tweak to remove (preferably) or disable the Network Neighbourhood on certain clients in my network. Some users are hogging my bandwith with browsing machines to wich they do not have access. The NT tweak :hkey/current user/software/microsoft/explorer Dword NoEntireNetwork=1 does not work under win98se. Any suggestions anyone?

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by vertex

I know of one program that remove the TCPIP and the Network Neighbourhood. This particular function is put under an option where you can install and uninstall at you pleasure. For more info check out www.98lite.net. Don't know if that would help you, good luck.

by hpoppe

Maybe, but I'm not willing to pay for a program to do this. Should be possible to set up in Registry.

by arniej

Have you tried using policy files? You can disable the Network Neighbourhood by giving people a policy when they log-in. Any decent book on NT / 98 will tell you how to do this.

Hope this is of some use?

by hpoppe

No NT macines in the network. Domaincontroller is Linux Mandrake 7.2 running Samba. No policyfiles are available that cannot be overruled by the users.

by arniej

Sorry the last point didn't help, Try this one...

A free util exists called TWEAKUI. This is a collection of tools that can do all manner of things, including hide Network Neighbourhood. Best of all its free! go to www.twaekui.com. The site is under construction but there is a link that points to the tweakui.zip that you can download. It's 79K If you cant get access to the site, email me and I'll send the xip file to you as I have it.

Before I forget it does work with Win98 SE.

Hope this works for you.

by hpoppe

Tried it, very easy for users to configure. nNeed a reg patc or something a bit more difficult to adjust. Tanx.

by eugen prokopiev

Registry Monitor from Sysinternals package known to work not only under NT but under Win9x too. Try to run it while making changes by TweakUI and if the answer is in registry, you'll get it.

by eugen prokopiev

Have you tried wy way? If you don't have regmon, I can send it to you via e-mail (it's pretty small executable). It will give you list of modified registry keys when you make changes by TweakUI. If not, it will mean that the solution is not in registry.

Eugen

by hpoppe

TweakUi and other 3rd party software has already been rejeced as a solution.

by hpoppe

Question has been answered by e-mail directly.
The hack is:Hkey_current_user\software\microsoft\windows\current version\policies\explorer Add a binary value NoNetHood=0000 01 00 00 00 ....
hpoppe

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