Windows operating system Group Policy application full Raiders (2)

V. Personalize the taskbar and start menus

On the right side of the window shown in Figure 6, the Group Policy configuration items for the taskbar and Start menu are displayed. Let's take a look at the specific example:

Figure 6

Location: "Group Policy console → user Configuration → admin templates → taskbar and Start Menu"

1. Lose weight to the Start menu (Windows 2000/xp/2003)

If you feel that Windows Start menu is too bloated, you can remove unwanted menu items from the Start menu. In the right pane of Group Policy, multiple Group Policy configuration items are provided such as remove user folders from Start menu, delete access and links to Windows Update, remove public programs from Start menu, delete My Documents icon from Start menu. You can just turn on the policy for the menu item that you don't want.

2. Protect the Taskbar and start menus (Windows 2000/xp/2003)

If you don't want to let others change the taskbar and Start menu settings, you can only enable the "Prevent changes" taskbar and Start Menu settings in the right pane of the Group Policy console and the "Prevent access to the context menu of the taskbar" two policy items. This way, when you right-click the taskbar and click Properties, an error message appears (Figure 7), and the pop-up menu is hidden when you right-click the taskbar and the items on the taskbar, such as the Start button, the clock, and the taskbar button.

Figure 7

3. Disable logoff and shutdown (Windows 2000/xp/2003)

When the computer starts, if you do not want this user to be "shut down" or "Log Off" again, enable the two policies on the Remove from Start menu and remove and block access shutdown commands in the right pane of the Group Policy console.

This setting removes the Shutdown option from the Start menu and disables the Windows Task Manager dialog Box  Press Ctrl+alt+del to show the shutdown option in  of this dialog box. Also note that this setting prevents users from shutting down with the Windows interface, but does not prevent users from using other Third-party utility programs to shut down Windows.

Tip: Delete the show logoff item from the Start menu option if you have enabled the Remove Logoff on the Start menu. Users cannot restore the logout < username > Item to the Start menu (only by manually modifying the registry's method). This setting affects only the Start menu, and it does not affect the logout item on the Windows Task Manager dialog box (so you need to enable both the delete and block access shutdown commands) without preventing users from logging off in other ways.

4. Protect personal document privacy with Group Policy (Windows 2000/xp/2003)

Windows has an advanced intelligence feature that allows you to record files that you have visited. Although this feature makes it easy for users to open the file again, you sometimes need to block this feature for security and performance reasons, such as not wanting to know which pages you have browsed and which files have been opened. With Group Policy, you can turn on the two policy in the right pane, "Do not keep records of recently opened documents" and "Clear records of recently opened documents when exiting".

Also note that if you enable this policy setting but do not enable the Remove Document menu from Start Menu policy setting, the document menu also appears on the Start menu, but the menu is an empty menu. If you enable this policy setting, and then disable it and set it to Not configured, the document shortcuts saved before the policy setting is enabled are returned to the document menu and the application's File menu.