Disable right click "manage" on My Computer

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Chris

It's driving me crazy - how can I get rid of the Manage menu item on right
clicking My Computer - I want to keep the other options available.

many thanks for any help

Chris
 
Not sure (although policies might be able to do this for you). I don't
understand why you'd bother tho - why not just avoid clicking it?
 
I need to do this as I'm setting up computers for students to use and I want
to prevent any access to this feature. I don't want to stop right clicking,
period, on the desk top though.

As you say there must be a policy to do this or a simple regedit to remove
the context menu item. It's trying to find what it is which is my problem.

Any further help would be appreciated.

Chris

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
 
Ah - okay, so it's for users, not for you. Are you on a domain? You can use
the default domain policy to manage pretty much everything they can/can't
do.
I need to do this as I'm setting up computers for students to use and
I want to prevent any access to this feature. I don't want to stop
right clicking, period, on the desk top though.

As you say there must be a policy to do this or a simple regedit to
remove the context menu item. It's trying to find what it is which
is my problem.

Any further help would be appreciated.

Chris

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
Not sure (although policies might be able to do this for you). I
don't understand why you'd bother tho - why not just avoid clicking
it?
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Alternatively if you are using 2000/XP you can go into the mmc and make it
so right click on my computer is disabled. Plus you can really lock the PC
down so the students can get into dos or control panel etc


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
Ah - okay, so it's for users, not for you. Are you on a domain? You can use
the default domain policy to manage pretty much everything they can/can't
do.
I need to do this as I'm setting up computers for students to use and
I want to prevent any access to this feature. I don't want to stop
right clicking, period, on the desk top though.

As you say there must be a policy to do this or a simple regedit to
remove the context menu item. It's trying to find what it is which
is my problem.

Any further help would be appreciated.

Chris

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
Not sure (although policies might be able to do this for you). I
don't understand why you'd bother tho - why not just avoid clicking
it?


Chris wrote:
It's driving me crazy - how can I get rid of the Manage menu item on
right clicking My Computer - I want to keep the other options
available.

many thanks for any help

Chris
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A limited account can still right-click on Computer, and open up Manage.
On the other hand, it is good to know that, when I attempted to use all the
features, every attempt failed, with the message Access Denied.
 
I guess I'll just have to stop all right clicks on My Computer if I can't
find the right regedit to do it - I know there *must* be one which will
easily do it though

Thanks for all the advice

Chris

Kevin Haklar said:
Alternatively if you are using 2000/XP you can go into the mmc and make it
so right click on my computer is disabled. Plus you can really lock the PC
down so the students can get into dos or control panel etc


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
Ah - okay, so it's for users, not for you. Are you on a domain? You can use
the default domain policy to manage pretty much everything they can/can't
do.
I need to do this as I'm setting up computers for students to use and
I want to prevent any access to this feature. I don't want to stop
right clicking, period, on the desk top though.

As you say there must be a policy to do this or a simple regedit to
remove the context menu item. It's trying to find what it is which
is my problem.

Any further help would be appreciated.

Chris

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
message Not sure (although policies might be able to do this for you). I
don't understand why you'd bother tho - why not just avoid clicking
it?


Chris wrote:
It's driving me crazy - how can I get rid of the Manage menu item on
right clicking My Computer - I want to keep the other options
available.

many thanks for any help

Chris
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If you are using XP pro/2000 type mmc in run (You will need to be admin) .
That should bring up the console. Click console->add/remove snapin click add
and find group policy add that. Now navigate to user configuration->windows
components->windows explorer. You should see an option like Hide the manage
item on the windows explorer context menu. enable that and you should find
manage is gone from right click on My computer. Have a look in these
policies. you should see some really good ones to help lock down your
machines.

Hope that helps


Chris said:
I guess I'll just have to stop all right clicks on My Computer if I can't
find the right regedit to do it - I know there *must* be one which will
easily do it though

Thanks for all the advice

Chris

Kevin Haklar said:
Alternatively if you are using 2000/XP you can go into the mmc and make it
so right click on my computer is disabled. Plus you can really lock the PC
down so the students can get into dos or control panel etc


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
Ah - okay, so it's for users, not for you. Are you on a domain? You
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can
use
the default domain policy to manage pretty much everything they can/can't
do.

Chris wrote:
I need to do this as I'm setting up computers for students to use and
I want to prevent any access to this feature. I don't want to stop
right clicking, period, on the desk top though.

As you say there must be a policy to do this or a simple regedit to
remove the context menu item. It's trying to find what it is which
is my problem.

Any further help would be appreciated.

Chris

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
message Not sure (although policies might be able to do this for you). I
don't understand why you'd bother tho - why not just avoid clicking
it?


Chris wrote:
It's driving me crazy - how can I get rid of the Manage menu item on
right clicking My Computer - I want to keep the other options
available.

many thanks for any help

Chris
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