Disable Right Click On Directory

[Candace]

Hi There...

Just wondering if anyone knows how to disable the right click option just for directories in windows... Having problems with people changing settings or just being plain nosiey... And would love to disable the right click option...

Thanks in advance

[Scarecrow Man]

http://www.jfitz.com/tips/rclick_custom.html

Question:

"Can I disable [insert menu option here] in Internet Explorer's right-click menu?"

Answer:

Non-standard items can be removed from the MenuExt registry key. This can usually be found here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt

After removing the offending key, restart IE and the menu item should be gone.

With regard to the default behavior of Internet Explorer, (i.e. the menu items that don't appear in MenuExt) there are a number of restrictions you can place on newer versions of the browser.

One of the best online sources for information about the various options is at: http://registry.winguides.com/display.php/442/

You can't specifically disable a single menu item, (at least as far as I'm aware -- there may be some undocumented way around it), but you can make the menu go away completely. This might be useful for shared machines in a "public" environment, where changes made through the menu, (such as setting the computer's background from a web image), could be confusing to other users.

Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions

Set a DWORD value:

NoBrowserContextMenu = 1

You can also do this just for specific users if you wish. In this case, make the change under HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

If you export the modified key to a .REG file, (using regedit's export menu option), you can very quickly copy the change to a number of machines. (.REG files open using regedit when double clicked and apply the registry changes they contain. The files themselves are simply text files -- you can verify their contents in notepad or any other editor.)