*John,
I had the same requirement for some kiosk machines. I found the re
value
that hides the Printers and Faxes icon on the Start menu.
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Start_ShowPrinters:REG_DWORD
Set to 0 to hide the icon
Set to 1 to display icon
This is a per-user setting. You will need to logon twice, once t
set the
value and the second for the change to take effect.
I have also included a custom ADM template for deploying via GPO.
---------start here------------------------------
CLASS USER
CATEGORY !!Company
CATEGORY !!StartMenu
POLICY !!PrinterFaxIcon
KEYNAME
"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced"
EXPLAIN !!PrinterFaxIcon_Explain
VALUENAME !!PrinterFaxIconValueName
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END POLICY ;;PrinterFaxIcon
END CATEGORY ;;StartMenu
END CATEGORY ;;Company
[strings]
Company=YourCompanyNameHere
StartMenu="Start Menu"
PrinterFaxIcon="Show "Printers and Faxes" icon on the Start menu"
PrinterFaxIcon_Explain="Enable or disable display of Printers an
Faxes icon
on the Start menu.\n\nDefault setting is to display the icon on th
Start
menu. Setting this to enabled has the same effect as the defaul
setting.
\n\nChoosing Disabled will hide the "Printers and Faxes" icon fro
the Start
menu.
PrinterFaxIconValueName="Start_ShowPrinters"
Arden
John said:
I am using windows xp Proff. I am using gpedit to lock
down the computer. I can remove everything except the
printers and faxes icon from the start menu. I called
microsoft support where you pay 35.00 per incident and
they could not help me. Has anyone done this? Any help
would be great.
Thank you
John
