The “Delete history” button is a button present in Internet Explorer that can remove all browsing traces from a computer. While ordinarily this would be a good thing, allowing you to protect your browser habits from prying eyes, this can become a liability when you suspect someone is using your computer for malicious or immoral purposes. Removing this [...]
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Windows allows you to selectively specify the system shell based on the logged in user. For example this allows one user to use the standard explorer interface and another to use the legacy progman shell.
Open your registry and find or create the key below.
Create a new String value, or modify the existing value, called “Shell” and [...]
This setting allows you to specify applications and filenames that users are restricted from running.
Open your registry and find the key [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Policies\Explorer]
Create a new DWORD value and name it “DisallowRun” set the value to “1” to enable application restrictions or “0” to allow all applications to run.
Then create a new sub-key called [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun] [...]
This setting allows you to remove the ability to change, add or delete file types using explorer the Folder Options interface.
Open your registry and find or create the key below.
Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called “NoFileAssociate” and set it according to the value data below.
Exit your registry; you may need [...]
This option allows you to stop users from being able to shutdown the computer by disabling the shut down command.
Open your registry and find or create the key below.
Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called “NoClose” and set it according to the value data below.
Exit your registry; you may need to restart [...]
This setting allows you to control which drives are visible in My Computer and Explorer. It is possible to hide all drives or just selected ones.
Open your registry and find or create the key below.
The “NoDrives” value uses a 32-bit word to define local and network drive visibility for each logical drive in the computer. [...]
You can force Windows to reject passwords that do not meet a minimum password length. Useful to help stop people from using trivial passwords where security is an issue.
Open your registry and find the key below, if the Network sub-key does not already exist then create it.
Create a new binary value named ‘MinPwdLen‘, and set [...]
This option allows you to stop users from being able to shutdown the computer by disabling the shut down command.
Open your registry and find or create the key below.
Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called “NoClose” and set it according to the value data below.
Exit your registry; you may need to [...]
This restriction is used to force the locking of the taskbar and restrict users from making any changes to its position.
Open your registry and find or create the key below.
Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called “LockTaskbar” and set it according to the value data below.
Exit your registry; you may need to [...]
