Restricting access to Properties of My Documents folder (For All Users).
This setting can hide the Properties of My Documents folder on Desktop and Windows Explorer.
Level: Recommended For Novice Users
Description:
When you go to my documents folder, press the right mouse button and choose properties or when you select my documents properties in windows explorer, the my documents properties dialog box will appear. Likewise, selecting alt + enter key combination with my documents selected, also calls the same dialog box. If this setting is enabled, you can prevent the user having access to the my documents properties dialog box. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. If the subkey explorer is not present, create it as explained below. Then, create a dword value nopropertiesmydocuments, if this value does not exists. Now, right-click and modify the value to 1 which can hide the properties dialog box. However, if you want to show the dialog box back, change the value to 0 or delete the value. The changes take effect after a restart or logoff. Note: the restrictions will apply on all user accounts created on your system. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.
When you go to my documents folder, press the right mouse button and choose properties or when you select my documents properties in windows explorer, the my documents properties dialog box will appear. Likewise, selecting alt + enter key combination with my documents selected, also calls the same dialog box. If this setting is enabled, you can prevent the user having access to the my documents properties dialog box. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. If the subkey explorer is not present, create it as explained below. Then, create a dword value nopropertiesmydocuments, if this value does not exists. Now, right-click and modify the value to 1 which can hide the properties dialog box. However, if you want to show the dialog box back, change the value to 0 or delete the value. The changes take effect after a restart or logoff. Note: the restrictions will apply on all user accounts created on your system. 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 the <b>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\]</b> key, right-click to create a new key with the name "Explorer".
Third, right-click in the open area to create a new DWORD value with the name "NoPropertiesMyDocuments".
Fourth, right-click on the "NoPropertiesMyDocuments" DWORD value 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\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\]
- Location: Local Machine
- Value Name: Explorer
- Data Type: Key
- Action Type: Add an Entry
- Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\]
- Location: Local Machine
- Value Name: NoPropertiesMyDocuments
- Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
- Enabled Value: 1
- Disabled Value: 0
- Action Type: Add an Entry
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