I did give Process Explorer a thought...however, I have, in the face of the overwhelming evidence that this ain't possible, managed to convince management otherwise.
I have managed to restrict the Task Manager window to the Applications tab only, using AppSense to block out all the tab controls. After a half-hour spent convincing the powers-that-be that this will suffice - I mean, users generally don't know one process from another anyway - they have agreed that the Processes tab isn't as vital, and they are happy for me to proceed with the window restricted to the opening tab, fortunately this being Applications. So on to the next task they want me to perform. Which is finding a way to remove the buttons from the Log Off options on the Start Menu - yes, the ones that are already disabled and greyed-out via Group Policy. They want them removed *completely*. Ah, the challenges. :-) On 11 March 2011 17:11, Crawford, Scott <crawfo...@evangel.edu> wrote: > Wow. They can’t come up with anything better for you to do than this? J > > > > I would just tell management that it’s not realistically possible and > rather pointless anyway. > > > > One option might be Process Explorer. Obviously it has WAY more UI than > task manager, but it **might** have some option for disabling most of its > UI. > > > > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, March 11, 2011 9:45 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Hide specific tabs in Task Manager > > > > Got a request from management to allow users to use the Task Manager, which > I originally had disabled via GPO, but they only want it to show the > Applications and Processes tabs. Nothing else. Not that they can do much on > the other tabs, but they want them all hidden anyway. This is on a 2008 R2 > XenApp 6 environment. > > I usually would use AppSense to do stuff like this, but their "lockdown" > features appear to have taken a big step backwards in version 8 - you can't > lock out individual tabs, only the whole row of tabs. Blanking out the > window controls is possible but a bit hit-and-miss - they keep reappearing > when the window refreshes. Which is kind of annoying, because now I've got > to find an alternative way. > > So, does anyone know if there is a way to remove individual tabs in Task > Manager? GPO, registry key, anything? My preliminary research seems to > suggest that it's pretty much a non-starter. If that's the case, is there > any other app or add-on I could deploy which would give users the ability to > view and end their own apps and processes, but nothing else? I toyed with > the idea of a custom scripted solution, but I'm here only for a few months > building their new environment and ideally I'd like to keep it as mainstream > as possible, so the support guys here can maintain it more easily going > forwards. > > TIA, > > > > JRR > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' 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