Hotbar in Internet Explorer

Hi everybody,

We use a terminal server environment in our school here and have started
seeing the hotbar toolbar appearing on one of our servers. My question is
can we stop these toolbars being installed by users? The solution would have
to work whether the toolbar was installed without the users permission or if
the user downloaded the toolbar and installed it.

We're committed to using IE for comaptibility with our Intranet publishing
software so using Firefox or Opera isn't an option. I would appreciate any
help you could give.

Many thanks,

Steven.

Hi Steven,

I suggest you trace the registry and check to see what permissions needed
to install the hotbar in Internet Explorer for the terminal users. You may
remove the write permission on the related registry for the terminal users
to prevent them installing the hotbar. You can trace the registry using
Advanced Registry Tracer or Regmon.

More information for your reference:
Regmon
http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/regmon.html

Advanced Registry Tracer
http://www.elcomsoft.com/art.html

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Hope the information helps.

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Jason Tan

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| Hi everybody,
|
| We use a terminal server environment in our school here and have started
| seeing the hotbar toolbar appearing on one of our servers. My question is
| can we stop these toolbars being installed by users? The solution would
have
| to work whether the toolbar was installed without the users permission or
if
| the user downloaded the toolbar and installed it.
|
| We're committed to using IE for comaptibility with our Intranet
publishing
| software so using Firefox or Opera isn't an option. I would appreciate
any
| help you could give.
|
| Many thanks,
|
| Steven.
|
|
|