[WEB4LIB] NoToolsOptions registry hack enlightenment

[Andrew Mutch]

Julia,

The specific registry hack you want is here:

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/639/

This removes the option to Customize the toolbar.  However, what you'll find in
IE 5 and 6 is that if you use this settings, any of the customizations of
buttons that you do to the toolbar will be blown away.  So, if you want to
disable customizations, you'll be stuck with the default toolbar buttons.  I
haven't tried this in combination with hacks that disable individual buttons.
I'm not sure which would take precedence but that would be a route to explore.

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI

Julia Schult wrote:

> I figured out something important about the registry hack which is supposed
> to prevent users from messing with toolbars in Internet Explorer.  Since
> several web sites on the subject fail to clarify this, I'm sending this to
> the list so others won't flounder the way I did:
>
> When you create a DWORD in the registry key:
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Policies \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \
> Toolbars \ Restrictions
> called NoToolbarOptions, and set it to 1,
> it does *not* prevent the user from adding and deleting buttons from the
> toolbar.
> It *does*, however, prevent the user from changing the checkmarks that cause
> the standard buttons, address bar, links, and radio to show on the toolbar,
> so no one can make the address bar disappear, for example.
>
> (If anyone knows how to keep users from being able to Customize the
> toolbars, please let me know!  Eventually I hope to go to Public Web Browser
> so I won't have to worry about it...)
>
> FYI, I'm using registry hacks to control the following:
> Explorer tweaks:
>   Remove the Find command from the Start Menu (NoFind = 1)
>   Remove the Run command from the Start Menu (NoRun = 1)
>   Remove the Taskbar from Settings on the Start Menu (NoSetTaskbar = 1)
>   Don’t save settings on exit (NoSaveSettings = 1)
> IE tweaks:
>   Don’t allow access to Internet Options (NoBrowserOptions = 1)
>   Don’t show the Favorites menu (NoFavorites = 1)
>   Prevent some toolbar changes as discussed above (NoToolbarOptions = 1)
> Outlook Express tweaks:
>   User cannot set up email (No Modify Accts = 1)
>   User cannot get to Hotmail etc. ("modify" or create HTTP Mail Enable = 0)
> (Having set the Outlook Express folder's Security to deny everyone access to
> everything, these additional tweaks I think make it unusable for our
> patrons.)
>
> Which Dwords are in which keys is an exercise left to the reader.  ;-)
> They're pretty easy to find out on the web once you know what terms to look
> under.
>
> ---Julia E. Schult
> Access/Electronic Services Librarian
> Elmira College
> Jschult at elmira.edu