Disable network places group policy windows 7

Emil says:. I think I can. Steve says:. Thank you for your opinion. Appreciate it. Wayne says:. Then i guess your solution will just work. Joven says:. VermeersBeard says:. Johnnie says:. Aneno says:. There is no gpsvc key in windows xp. So please… what should I do?? Kiwi says:. AyuanX, thank you. Thanks and regards, valser Sennju says:. Hello, Thanks for the trick it works well. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment:.

Email required Address never made public. Name required. Blog at WordPress. Constraint : i cant enable the Windows Firewall, it ll have to be by reg key Wednesday, March 9, PM. Thursday, March 10, AM. Thank you. Best Regards, Jay Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and un-mark them if they provide no help. Monday, March 14, AM. Thanks, I've been testing this on two virtual machines.

I'll reset them and try again,. I would like to remove the "network" browsing via Group Policies. This is a domain environment and we use Group Policies and mandatory profiles to control what the public can do. Basically with most of the machine locked down, a user can still open the "Computer" icon or double click their "User" icon and in the left pane under the "Libraries" and "Computer" icon is the "Network" icon. Expanding the Network icon searchs and reveals our domain member computers.

Granted most things are "Read Only" but I don't like having the network exposed like that. I can hide the "Main" Network desktop and Start Menu icon but not that one. We don't run the Windows Firewall Service. This works, but it is a computer setting so affects all users, which I can cope with. However this does not disable network browsing, and if you get to a Open file dialog e.

Main Areas of Contribution:. Track Progress. Earn Credits. I firstly had to create a script in notepad to be able to be deployed via GPO. Now the ADM file has been created.

It is a case of deploying this via GPO. This only works deploying it to a user, I firstly made the mistake of deploying to the computer. Step 3: Make sure it has been applied