Day: October 14, 2011

  Using Windows 7 with Group Policy Management installed or a 2008 Server. Navigate too: User Configuration/Policies/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Windows Explorer/ Enable Disable Known Folders and add the following: {2112AB0A-C86A-4ffe-A368-0DE96E47012E} – Music Library {491E922F-5643-4af4-A7EB-4E7A138D8174} – Videos Library {7b0db17d-9cd2-4a93-9733-46cc89022e7c} – Documents Library {A302545D-DEFF-464b-ABE8-61C8648D939B} – User Libraries Folder {A990AE9F-A03B-4e80-94BC-9912D7504104} – Pictures Library {031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5} – Another reference to User Library If you have a Windows 7 and XP mixed network on Server 2003 you may want to Disable Turn off Windows Libraries features that rely on indexed file data this will help with problems of folder redirection.   Source: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-7/46809-windows-7-removing-libraries.html   windows explorer remove […]

Group Policy Registry Table Group Policy, a Windows 2000 administrative tool, determines how programs, network resources, and the operating system behave for users and computers in an organization. Group Policy uses Group Policy Objects in Active Directory, and affects computers and users by adding, deleting, and changing the values of entries in the Windows 2000 registry. The following table displays the Group Policy settings in the Administrative Templates folder and the registry entries that they change. The policies are listed in alphabetical order. For information about the registry entry, click the entry name in the table. For information about the […]

With Group Policy Objects in Windows, there is a "Hide these specified drives in My Computer" option that lets you hide specific drives. However, it may be necessary to hide only certain drive, but retain access to others. There are seven default options for restricting access to drives. You can add other restrictions by modifying the System.adm file for the default domain policy or any custom Group Policy Object (GPO). The seven default selections are: Restrict A, B, C and D drives only Restrict A, B and C drives only Restrict A and B drives only Restrict all drives Restrict […]