+1 and dumb. Are you also blocking access to tasklist.exe ? Have fun trying to block switch syntax. :-)
-- ME2 On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 9:11 AM, 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?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > *IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual > addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, > privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, > no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the > intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email > is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an > irritating social faux pas. > > Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context > somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no > grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the > transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on > borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of > the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message > revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice > from Microsoft. > > However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your > computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have > received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk > and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes.* > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
