Locking The Toolbars

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(For all windows versions)

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Usually on a windows system, it is possible for users to customize, disable or enable various toolbars by simply clicking on the view ? Toolbar option. However, it is actually possible for system administrators to lock the toolbars and prevent users from playing around with the various option. This can be carried out by simply following the steps below:

Step-1 Open the regedit.exe file.

Step-2 Scroll down to or create the following registry key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer]

Step-3 Create a new DWORD value named NoBandCustomize within the above registry key and set its data value to 1 to lock the toolbars, and to 0 to enable them back again.

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Step-4 Exit the windows registry and restart the windows session for the change to be applied.

It is also possible to implement the above by simply creating and executing sky.reg extension file containing the data below:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer]

“NoBandCustomize”=”1”

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