Hide Standard toolbar in Internet Explorer (For All Users).
This setting hides the Standard toolbar in Internet Explorer. It prevents users from messing with toolbars by changing their selections regularly in Internet Explorer.
Level: Recommended For Novice Users
Description:
In internet explorers' view menu, theres an item toolbars which lists different toolbars associated with the browser. These toolbars can be activated/deactivated by applying/removing the tick marks on the menu item. The standard toolbar helps identify and use the various options through easily recognizable icons and their descriptions. Hiding of standard toolbar is useful in a kiosk, library, or public outlets where you don't want users to change toolbars selection in internet explorer. For this go to start > run, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. If any of the subkeys internet explorer\toolbars\restrictions is not present, create it as explained below. Then, create a dword value notoolbar, in the right panel. Now, right-click and modify the value to 1 which can hide standard toolbar in internet explorer. However, if you want to go back to the original state, change the value to 0. The changes will take effect after a restart or logoff. Note: this setting can be applied to windows explorer as well. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.
In internet explorers' view menu, theres an item toolbars which lists different toolbars associated with the browser. These toolbars can be activated/deactivated by applying/removing the tick marks on the menu item. The standard toolbar helps identify and use the various options through easily recognizable icons and their descriptions. Hiding of standard toolbar is useful in a kiosk, library, or public outlets where you don't want users to change toolbars selection in internet explorer. For this go to start > run, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. If any of the subkeys internet explorer\toolbars\restrictions is not present, create it as explained below. Then, create a dword value notoolbar, in the right panel. Now, right-click and modify the value to 1 which can hide standard toolbar in internet explorer. However, if you want to go back to the original state, change the value to 0. The changes will take effect after a restart or logoff. Note: this setting can be applied to windows explorer as well. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.
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First, click the Start button, and select Run. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".

Second, go to <b>'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\'</b> , and right-click to create a subkey "Internet Explorer" under "Microsoft".

Create another key "Toolbars" under "Internet Explorer".

In the hierarchy create "Restrictions" subkey.

Then, right-click in the open area to create a DWORD value with the name "NoToolBar".

After creating "NoToolBar" DWORD value, right-click on it and click on 'Modify'.

Finally, enter the value "1" in the text-box and click on 'OK'.
Registry Entries
- back to top- Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\]
- Location: Local Machine
- Value Name: Internet Explorer
- Data Type: Key
- Action Type: Add an Entry
- Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\]
- Location: Local Machine
- Value Name: Toolbars
- Data Type: Key
- Action Type: Add an Entry
- Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbars\]
- Location: Local Machine
- Value Name: Restrictions
- Data Type: Key
- Action Type: Add an Entry
- Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbars\Restrictions\]
- Location: Local Machine
- Value Name: NoToolBar
- Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
- Enabled Value: 1
- Disabled Value: 0
- Action Type: Add an Entry
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