Right click on your empty area of your desktop. you will see a menu shown up.
scroll down a little bit, you will see " new" sub menu which will lead to new
shortcut, folder etc... Now How can you gray out this "new" submenu? so user
can't create new shortcut or new folder?
Thannk you very much.
David

Try and make it a bit more challenging next time.

In Global Policy, User configuration|Administrative Templates|Windows
Components|Windows Explorer|Disable Windows Explorer's default context menu.


"Canucks" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:30799001-AE9E-4349-995F-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Right click on your empty area of your desktop. you will see a menu shown
> up.
> scroll down a little bit, you will see " new" sub menu which will lead to
> new
> shortcut, folder etc... Now How can you gray out this "new" submenu? so
> user
> can't create new shortcut or new folder?
> Thannk you very much.
> David
>

Hey, thats challenging for some people. The IT at my high school a few years
ago obviously didn't know how to do this. Since the security paramaters
weren't in place, I was accused of "hacking" because I created a shortcut to
the C: drive :-P Anyone with at least somewhat computer knowledge should be
able to figure out how to create a shortcut to a drive...

"Jon Sherry" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Try and make it a bit more challenging next time.
>
> In Global Policy, User configuration|Administrative Templates|Windows
> Components|Windows Explorer|Disable Windows Explorer's default context
> menu.
>
>
> "Canucks" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:30799001-AE9E-4349-995F-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Right click on your empty area of your desktop. you will see a menu shown
>> up.
>> scroll down a little bit, you will see " new" sub menu which will lead to
>> new
>> shortcut, folder etc... Now How can you gray out this "new" submenu? so
>> user
>> can't create new shortcut or new folder?
>> Thannk you very much.
>> David
>>
>
>

On Jun 20, 2:21 pm, Canucks <Canu...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Right click on your empty area of your desktop. you will see a menu shown up.
> scroll down a little bit, you will see " new" sub menu which will lead to new
> shortcut, folder etc... Now How can you gray out this "new" submenu? so user
> can't create new shortcut or new folder?
> Thannk you very much.
> David

Hello David,

If you don't want to remove the entire right-click context menu as per
the Group Policy edit, but just want to remove the 'New' context menu
item, then open the Registry Editor (Start => Run and type in
regedit).
Navigate to this key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\New
\
Highlight this key and Backup (File => Export) this key first to a
safe location.
Right-click on the 'default' entry in the right-hand pane => Modify =>
and delete the Value Data
No need to restart.

thanks a lot buddy.

"Jon Sherry" wrote:

> Try and make it a bit more challenging next time.
>
> In Global Policy, User configuration|Administrative Templates|Windows
> Components|Windows Explorer|Disable Windows Explorer's default context menu.
>
>
> "Canucks" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:30799001-AE9E-4349-995F-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Right click on your empty area of your desktop. you will see a menu shown
> > up.
> > scroll down a little bit, you will see " new" sub menu which will lead to
> > new
> > shortcut, folder etc... Now How can you gray out this "new" submenu? so
> > user
> > can't create new shortcut or new folder?
> > Thannk you very much.
> > David
> >
>
>
>

Hi Ken,
Just wondering if I disable it in group policy as Jon metioned above, can
user still make new shortcuts anywhere else? or is there another way to map/
create shortcut on C drive?
Thanks,
David

"kenkcj" wrote:

> Hey, thats challenging for some people. The IT at my high school a few years
> ago obviously didn't know how to do this. Since the security paramaters
> weren't in place, I was accused of "hacking" because I created a shortcut to
> the C: drive :-P Anyone with at least somewhat computer knowledge should be
> able to figure out how to create a shortcut to a drive...
>
> "Jon Sherry" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Try and make it a bit more challenging next time.
> >
> > In Global Policy, User configuration|Administrative Templates|Windows
> > Components|Windows Explorer|Disable Windows Explorer's default context
> > menu.
> >
> >
> > "Canucks" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:30799001-AE9E-4349-995F-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> Right click on your empty area of your desktop. you will see a menu shown
> >> up.
> >> scroll down a little bit, you will see " new" sub menu which will lead to
> >> new
> >> shortcut, folder etc... Now How can you gray out this "new" submenu? so
> >> user
> >> can't create new shortcut or new folder?
> >> Thannk you very much.
> >> David
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>

No they won't. As long as the group policy that the user is logged in as
does not have access to the windows explorer defaults, this link will
disappear for them in any thing having to do with windows. This will keep
them from creating shortcuts anywhere in windows.

"Canucks" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:0B052A1F-5AB5-48FD-A450-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi Ken,
> Just wondering if I disable it in group policy as Jon metioned above, can
> user still make new shortcuts anywhere else? or is there another way to
> map/
> create shortcut on C drive?
> Thanks,
> David
>
> "kenkcj" wrote:
>
>> Hey, thats challenging for some people. The IT at my high school a few
>> years
>> ago obviously didn't know how to do this. Since the security paramaters
>> weren't in place, I was accused of "hacking" because I created a shortcut
>> to
>> the C: drive :-P Anyone with at least somewhat computer knowledge should
>> be
>> able to figure out how to create a shortcut to a drive...
>>
>> "Jon Sherry" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > Try and make it a bit more challenging next time.
>> >
>> > In Global Policy, User configuration|Administrative Templates|Windows
>> > Components|Windows Explorer|Disable Windows Explorer's default context
>> > menu.
>> >
>> >
>> > "Canucks" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> > news:30799001-AE9E-4349-995F-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >> Right click on your empty area of your desktop. you will see a menu
>> >> shown
>> >> up.
>> >> scroll down a little bit, you will see " new" sub menu which will lead
>> >> to
>> >> new
>> >> shortcut, folder etc... Now How can you gray out this "new" submenu?
>> >> so
>> >> user
>> >> can't create new shortcut or new folder?
>> >> Thannk you very much.
>> >> David
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>

You are the man.
Thank you very much.

"Claymore" wrote:

> On Jun 20, 2:21 pm, Canucks <Canu...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Right click on your empty area of your desktop. you will see a menu shown up.
> > scroll down a little bit, you will see " new" sub menu which will lead to new
> > shortcut, folder etc... Now How can you gray out this "new" submenu? so user
> > can't create new shortcut or new folder?
> > Thannk you very much.
> > David
>
> Hello David,
>
> If you don't want to remove the entire right-click context menu as per
> the Group Policy edit, but just want to remove the 'New' context menu
> item, then open the Registry Editor (Start => Run and type in
> regedit).
> Navigate to this key:
>
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\New
> \
> Highlight this key and Backup (File => Export) this key first to a
> safe location.
> Right-click on the 'default' entry in the right-hand pane => Modify =>
> and delete the Value Data
> No need to restart.
>
>