Clever Use of Windows7 group policies

Group PolicyThe importance of system administrators is self-evident.Windows 7What are the functions of group policies? A detailed description is provided below.

Computer users are no longer familiar with the word "Group Policy". "Group Policy" integrates important configuration functions of the system into various configuration modules for management personnel to use directly, to facilitate computer management. That is to say, modifying the "Group Policy" is to modify the configuration in the registry. Next we will use "Group Policy" in Windows 7 to complete some seemingly difficult tasks.

1. Make "run" in the Start Menu

The DOS command window is opened in different ways in the Windows XP system and Windows 7 system. We want the DOS window to appear in the Start menu like the Windows XP system. Win + R open the running window and enter gpedit. msc and press enter to open "group policy ". Expand "user configuration> Manage template> Start Menu and Taskbar", and double-click "add command to [start] menu, in the "add running command to [start] menu properties" dialog box, select "enabled" under the "Settings" tab, and click "OK" to exit, in this way, "Run" will appear in the "Start" menu.

Group Policy

2. Disable the "balloon" Notification

Notifications in Windows 7 always come out, disturbing people. In "Group Policy", click "user configuration> Manage template> Start Menu and Taskbar" in sequence ", in the right pane, double-click "close all balloon notifications" and select "enabled" under the "Settings" tab in the "close all balloon notification attributes" dialog box ", click "OK" to exit, and you will be able to turn off the annoying "balloon notification.

Disable balloon notification

3. Record The Last Time Windows 7 was logged on

The Windows 7 system can record our logon information, so that each time you log on to the system, you can compare the two logon times, "Group Policy", click "Computer Configuration> management template> Windows Components> Logon Options", and double-click "display previous Logon Information During User Logon, select "enabled" under the "Settings" tab in the "display previous logon information attributes During User Logon" dialog box, and click "OK" to exit.

Record the last time Windows 7 was logged on

4. Rename the Administrator

Everyone knows that the Administrator account of the system Administrator has the highest permissions and can still be renamed in the "Group Policy. On the "Group Policy" tab, click "Computer Configuration> Windows Settings> Security Settings> Local Policies> Security Options", and double-click "account: Rename System Administrator account, in the new "account: Rename System Administrator Account attributes" dialog box, you can change the name of the system Administrator account Administrator.

5. Restrict and hide Disk Partitions

In the left-side pane of the "Group Policy" dialog box that appears, click "Local Computer Policy> User Configuration> management template> Windows Components> Windows Resource Manager ", double-click the "prevent access to the drive from my computer" item in the right pane, then, in the "prevent access to drive properties from my computer" setting window, select "enabled" and select "enabled, the drop-down list for selecting a drive is displayed below. Select the drive we want to restrict and click "OK.

6. Add a lock to "shut down the computer"

In Windows 7, we provide a security barrier to the system on the basis of locking. In the "Group Policy" that is opened, click "Computer Configuration> Windows Settings> Security Settings> Local Policies> Security Options", and then find and double-click "Shut down: allow shutdown before logon. In the displayed Properties dialog box, set the attribute to "disabled" and click "OK.

7. Prevent the password from being guessed

In the left-side pane of the "Group Policy" dialog box that appears, choose "Computer Settings> Windows Settings> Security Settings> Account Policy> account lock policy", and double-click "account lock threshold, here, you can set the number of failed logon attempts for the user account to be locked. The value ranges from 0 to 999. The default value 0 indicates that the number of logon attempts is unlimited. We can change it to 3 or 10.

Password Policy

8. Cancel "logout" in the Start Menu"

In the "Group Policy" that is opened, click "user configuration> Manage template> Start Menu and Taskbar", and double-click "delete" on the "Start" menu, in the "Delete [start] menu, select" enabled "under the" Settings "tab in the" deregister property "dialog box, and click" OK "to exit. In this way, the "logout" option disappears from the Start Menu. However, this setting only applies to the "Start" menu and does not affect the "logout" project on the "Windows Security" dialog box.

Use the Group Policy of Windows7 to optimize our system. More knowledge about group policies remains to be learned and mastered by readers.