Re: Lost Windows Key + E Functionality

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Disable programs on Settings menu (Windows 2000)

Remove programs on Settings menu (Windows XP)

This policy is located under the following branch:
User Configuration\AdministrativeTemplates\Start Menu and Taskbar

If you enable the policy that is listed in the "Summary" section of this
article, the Windows logo key+E key combination is disabled. In addition,
the following items are removed from the Settings menu:
Control Panel
Network and Dialup Connections
Printers

Pressing Windows logo key+E displays the following message:
This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this
computer. Please contact your system administrator.
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from...
How to Disable the "Windows Logo Key+E" Key Combination with Group Policies
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301422

Also these registry keys...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
and/or
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Value Name: NoSetFolders
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value Data: 0 or 1
0 (or not in the registry) = The policy is disabled or not configured.
Control Panel, Printers, and Network and Dial-up Connections can run.
1 = The policy is enabled. Control Panel, Printers, and Network and Dial-up
Connections cannot run.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:B06EADE2-58E4-4CBD-A631-FF865C9D4CB8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
J Calvert <JCalvert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Hi,

We are having a problem with a couple of XP PC's in our 2003 Active
Directory environment.

When the user goes to use the Windows Key + E function to bring up
explorer, they get a message titled "Restrictions" and the message reads
"This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this
computer. Please contact your system administrator." The user has also
lost their search menu item.

The users in question are IT users, have admin rights, and use the same
group policies as users that are unaffected. The problem does not seem
to be profile related as the users can go to other PC's and the
functionality comes back.

The only commonality I have found is that the users in question have
recently logged onto a Windows 2000 Terminal Server, indicating that an
old policy is affecting their account.

I have read a Microsoft KB article which mentions this issue, and that it
applies to Windows 2000 machines, but the policy item does not exist in
Windows XP/Active Directory 2003.

Switching on and off the User Configuration > Admin Templates > Windows
Components > Windows Explorer > Turn off Windows+X hotkeys, Group Policy
item has had no effect on the users in question.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I starting to run out of ideas.

Thanks in advance
James

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