Agreed. These things are particularly irritating when you are trying to create a locked-down profile.
From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 11:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hide windows libraries I think that it is high time MS gave us some GPOs to manage libraries. There will be many Win7 / 2008 R2 RDS deployments starting and we all know users who can't cope when something changes. Reg key hacks and stripping perms with subinacl really isn't a good way to be managing these sort of modifications to a new desktop environment, IMHO. On 3 June 2011 15:58, Tom Miller <tmil...@hnncsb.org> wrote: Thanks, another option. I was able to use the original key below after modifying the perms for the key's subfolder, as suggested by James. I was using this link (left Favorites, hid Libraries): http://www.petri.co.il/remove-libraries-and-favorites-from-windows-explo rer.htm >>> John Cook <john.c...@pfsf.org> 6/3/2011 10:50 AM >>> That would be the one! John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 10:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hide windows libraries Something like these? http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/21462/how-to-enable-or-disable-the-librar ies-feature-in-windows-7/ On 3 June 2011 15:37, John Cook <john.c...@pfsf.org> wrote: I found a blog (don't remember where at the moment) that had 2 simple scripts that would either disable or reenable Libraries. Simple double click and it was done. John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 10:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hide windows libraries I didn't have to do it on mine, I admit. On 3 June 2011 15:30, Guyer, Don <don.gu...@fiserv.com> wrote: If it's a Computer GPO, is it even necessary to modify perms? When I Googled real quick, I didn't see any info regarding having to change perms. Just curious, cuz I may have to do this in the future. J Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed - A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group Fiserv don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com <http://www.fiserv.com/> From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 10:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hide windows libraries Actually I forgot, you can set registry permissions in Computer Config | Policies | Windows Settings | Security Settings | Registry, IIRC On 3 June 2011 15:25, Guyer, Don <don.gu...@fiserv.com> wrote: It should be possible with W2k8 based GPO. Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed - A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group Fiserv don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com <http://www.fiserv.com/> From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 10:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hide windows libraries Folks, What are you doing to hide the Windows Libraries feature from your users? We are moving to Win 7 and for now plan to keep it hidden. I know I can disable this via a registry key, but it won't apply via GPO/script since you have to manually change the key's permissions first. Or is there a way to change perms via a GPO? Key I am using is: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}\ShellFol der] "QueryForOverlay"="" "HideOnDesktopPerUser"="" "PinToNameSpaceTree"="" "Attributes"=dword:b080010d Suggestions appreciated. 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