Got it? There is no other known way to disable right click in Windows 7, as far I know. Kindly list the major programs you are using. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I truly appreciate your efforts and I will be waiting for your next post thanks once again.
This disables right click for all users admin included. What about setting this up for just a specific kiosk user? Home Archive Tools Contact Us. You are here: Home » Disable right click on the desktop and explorer in Windows 7. Advertisement Facebook Twitter Pinterest. Change Your windows 7 Start Orb in very easy steps! Change the preview thumbnail quality to speed up Windows 7 Speedup the thumbnail loading speed in Windows 7 What are keyloggers, trojans and Backdoors?
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Users will get IE as their startup shell which would take them to the remote app home page listing all runable applications, say app1, app2, app3, app4 etc. The user can select whatever application he has to run and then when he leaves or doesnt use the computer for some time it will again show up the remote app home page.
To ensure the application runs only one instance it has to be programmatically done inside the code of the application, OS can't control if multiple instances of the applcation would be allowed or not. I mean if the user clicks on empty space of the taskbar but not clicking on any open application, could he still see the taskbar properties?
No if they rt click in the empty space of the taskbar they have no menu or properties, similarly they can't right click on anything else either. Its only when they right click on an open application's icon on the taskbar. Then they get a short menu. And one of the menu items is to pin the application to the taskbar which we really can't have. Enter a value of 1 to disable Preview Desktop functionality. No we aren't using Desktop Preview Aero Peak so that registry entry does not exist.
It is only the standard show desktop icon that appears in the system notification tray next to the time and date. Its a kiosk PC used by people that are often not computer savvy. If they pin it to the task bar it will allow them to start a second instance of the application. This will cause licensing issues as the product has a pool of licences so theoretically they could grab the entire pool.
The PCs are touchscreens that are in remote locations. So if we can't stop them pinning to the taskbar can I completely hide the taskbar? I haven't investigated this yet. I can't figure out how to completely remove the start menu so instead I've removed all items in the start menu. If a user clicks on Start they get a blank list except for the user photo up the top right of the list. I don't know how to get rid of this.
If they click on this icon they get an error saying the admin has disabled it. However if they are clever enough and some of them will be , while that error is displayed, they can right click on the program icon that appears in the task bar and launch windows explorer.
They can get to network drives from there and while I think I have it all locked down, that doesn't mean someone else might leave something open at a later stage. Thanks for explaining the show desktop. If they click on the button nothing happens anyway so it doesn't matter, I was just trying to be tidy. We actually don't want the application to run unless the user is there Some of these PCs might only be used once a month - but then used intensely for a day or two.
If we use the app as the user interface, it would immediately use a licence. The other issues is that there are two applications that need to run. Is there a way of ensuring only one instance of a program can be running? That would overcome the licensing issue. And then if they pin it, I can de-pin it through a group policy registry hack each time they log off to avoid confusion for the less computer savvy users I was wondering if you have any further update on this issue.
Two really great suggestions thanks!!! I only work 2 days a week as I have a young family so that's why I haven't got back to you sooner. I'll play with the internet explorer option as that would be very easy for someone else to maintain if I ever left. At this time terminal services is not an option for us but that is also a good suggestion and something that we have on our wish list already.
Turns out they have a few small apps written in vb 6. Thanks for all your help. Issue solved. Is their no option what so ever to remove the "Close" option when a user right-clicks on an open application that is on the taskbar.
We have set the GPO for disabling the context menu for the taskbar, but it still allows the user to close an application. We are not setup in a "kiosk" environment as we still need our users to select an application or window that may be located on the taskbar. Even disabling the right click option all together for just the user "Agent" would be fine.
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