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August 14, 2002
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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