Disable / Hide The View Toolbar

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I need to disable or remove the VIEW option from the toolbar in IE 6SP1. I
am using Terminal Server for public kiosks to use IE and this is a big
security hole.
I have searched the groups and the net and can't find out how. If the view
menu cannot be disabled, what about the explorer bar under the view option?
If you click on view, then Explorer Bar and then Folders, you can actually
change a lot of settings on the computer, such as folder options, etc.

I have tried with Group Policies, I have searched the groups and the
internet, I have found numerous links and previous posts in the newsgroups,
but NONE tell you how to disable the VIEW menu.
 
I had a quick look at my listing of IE restrictions but could not
immediately find a restriction for disabling the View menu. I think though
from memory that IEAK 6 has options to enable you to do this. You would have
to download and the IEAK kit from MS and find this out for yourself.

Alternatively you can remove the Explorer Band Explorer bar from the
registry. The Explorer Band is usually not installed as an Internet Explorer
Band object.

The CLSID for the Explorer Bar is

{EFA24E64-B078-11D0-89E4-00C04FC9E26E}


You will find the entry for this key under

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Explorer
Bars\{EFA24E64-B078-11D0-89E4-00C04FC9E26E}

Trust this helps, but I do recommend that you download IEAK
 
Thanks for the reply Rob. I have tried the IEAK and it doesn't have this
option in it either. I double checked it this morning. I also tried removing
the CLSID from the registry and that made no difference at all. I assume you
just remove it, right? Any way, it didn't work. Anyone have any other
ideas?
 
Yes you just delete the value.

You should also delete the HKLM value.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Explorer
Bars\{EFA24E64-B078-11D0-89E4-00C04FC9E26E}

This is probably why the HKCU delete key did not work, since the local
machine settings are applied for each user.
 
That value is not under my HKLM, but I found it under HKEY CLASSES ROOT\CLSID
and removed it from there. You can still click on VIEW\EXPLORER BAR\FOLDERS,
but it just opens a grey window and the user can't do anything, so that does
fix this problem. Thanks!
 
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