Prevent Adding Dragging Dropping and Closing the Taskbar’s Toolbars
Posted By Brent Trahan On May 20, 2009 @ 2:58 pm In Guides, Personalization | No Comments
If you enable this setting, users cannot add or remove toolbars from the desktop. Also, users cannot drag toolbars on to or off of docked toolbars.
Note: If users have added or removed toolbars, this setting prevents them from restoring the default configuration.
Tip: To view the toolbars that can be added to the desktop, right-click a docked toolbar (such as the taskbar beside the Start button), and point to “Toolbars.”
Prevent Adding, Dragging, Dropping, and Closing Taskbar Toolbars
- Type gpedit.msc in the Start menu’s search box and then press Enter.
Note: This guide shows you how to make changes to Windows 7 using Group Policy. Group Policy is not available in Home versions of Windows 7.
- Navigate to User Configuration, Administrative Templates, and then select Desktop in the left column of the Group Policy editor.
[1] - Double-click Prevent adding, dragging, dropping, and closing the Taskbar’s Toolbars in the Settings section of the Group Policy editor.
- Select Enable and then click OK to save the changes.
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