Turning off Explorer shell context menu for specific users

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MG

Hi,

I'm running a stand-alone XP Professional (SP1) system,
with multiple user accounts. How can I restrict some
accounts (but not others) so that the Explorer shell
context menu (right mouse click on desktop, folder, etc.)
will NOT be shown for the specified users? I couldn't find
any registry or policy objects that are user specific.

Thanks.
 
This is easily done.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explore
r
Value name: NoViewContextMenu
Type: DWORD
1 = Context Menu disabled
0 = Context Menu enabled

If you're enabling this on your own profile as a test, you'll have to open
Task Manager and End Process on the Explorer.exe process and restart
Explorer.exe to see the change.
 
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