Classic Shell: Forum

I am very happy with Classic Shell and have deployed it in a Remote Desktop 2012 R2 environment. I have used its GPO to lock down certain menu items so that each user is given a similar menu in both look and feel. However, the one thing that I have been unable to resolve is how to stop users from right clicking on the start menu and making changes. I simply want to either disable right clicking on the start button completely, or removing the settings option from the right click.

Has anyone been able to figure this out?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks
Nimrod

To disable right click inside the menu, go to Classic Start Menu settings, enable All Settings. Go the Context Menu tab and uncheck "Enable right-click menu".

To disable right click options that appear when you right click the Start button, uncheck "Enable Exit" and "Enable Windows Explorer" on the same tab. The Settings item can be disabled from the Windows Registry (Regedit.exe) by adding a DWORD value "EnableSettings" and setting it to 0 at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\IvoSoft\ClassicStartMenu. To hide the "Help" item, rename or delete the Help file at C:\Program Files\Classic Shell\ClassicShell.chm.

Log off your Windows user account and log in again for all the changes to take effect.

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Hi GauravK
Thank you for the quick reply.
I have tried your first option which seems to help by removing a few of the icons, but it still allows me to open "settings" (see attached screenshot).
I wanted to try your registry suggestion, however, when I look in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\IvoSoft, I only see ClassicShell and no ClassicStartMenu folder (again, at the bottom of the attached pic)

Many thanks
Nimrod

You need to create the key "ClassicStartMenu" at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\IvoSoft and then add the "EnableSettings" value.

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Hi GauravK

This has worked perfectly, thank you!
One last question, I noticed that this also then disables the settings feature when I log in as administrator onto the server. Is there any way to ensure that administrator still has access to this menu, while keeping users disabled?

Many thanks for all of your help,
Nimrod

No there is no way to enable settings only for admins and disable for users.

Btw, "Enable settings" is also there as a machine-wide Group Policy under "Computer Configuration", if you don't wish to edit the Registry.

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Links to some general topics:

● Compare Start Menus

● Read the Search box usage guide.

I am a Windows enthusiast and helped a little with Classic Shell's testing and usability/UX feedback.

Thank you for all of your help.