JSI Tip 5620. How do I prevent double-clicking the Start menu Programs item from opening Window Explorer?

Jerold Schulman

August 14, 2002

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You locked down your users, only to find that they can double-click the Programs item on the Start menu and open Windows Explorer.

To prevent this behavior:

1. Copy / Paste the following into a NoWE.reg file:

REGEDIT4[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareClassesFoldershellopen]"BrowserFlags"=dword:00000010"ExplorerFlags"=dword:00000012[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareClassesFoldershellopencommand]@=hex(2):00,00[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareClassesFoldershellopenddeexec]@="[ViewFolder("%l", %I, %S)]""NoActivateHandler"=""[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareClassesFoldershellopenddeexecapplication]@=""[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareClassesFoldershellopenddeexecifexec]@="[]"[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareClassesFoldershellopenddeexectopic]@="AppProperties"

2. Merge the NoWE.reg file with each of your users registries.



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