JSI Tip 6306. How do I remove the address bar from Internet Explorer and prevent users from re-enabling it?

If you wish to prevent users from typing into the Internet Explorer address bar:

1. Log on as a user and manually configure the tool bars you wish to remove by uncheck them on the Internet Explorer View / Toolbars menu.

2. Run:  regedit /a IEBars.reg "HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerToolbarWebBrowser".

3. Log on with administrative privileges.

4. Edit the IEBars.reg file, removing all the Value Names except ITBarLayout. Here is a sample of the IEBars.reg file, after editing, exported from an Internet Explorer 6.0 installation, where only the address bar has been removed:

REGEDIT4[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerToolbarWebBrowser]"ITBarLayout"=hex:11,00,00,00,4c,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,34,00,00,00,1d,00,00,00,  41,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,20,07,00,00,a0,0f,00,00,05,00,00,00,62,05,00,00,26,  00,00,00,02,00,00,00,21,07,00,00,a0,0f,00,00,04,00,00,00,29,01,00,00,a0,0f,  00,00,03,00,00,00,20,03,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00

5. Modify [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerToolbarWebBrowser]
to be [HKEY_USERSTempHiveSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerToolbarWebBrowser]

6. Use ModifyProfile.exe to run:

ModifyProfile.exe /PROFILE:ALL /REG:"C:TEMPIEBars.reg" /KEYNAME:TempHive

7. Prevent users from changing the list of tool bars selected by enabling the Disable customizing browser toolbars Group Policy Object at
User ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesWindows ComponentsInternet ExplorerToolbars

NOTE: When you Enable the Disable customizing browser toolbars Group Policy Object, the Toolbars command will be dimmed.

NOTE: you can also dim the Customize command by enabling the Disable customizing browser toolbar buttons Group Policy Object.