Disable the Ability to Right Click on the Desktop

Right click and left click (click) just like ‘yin’ and ‘yang’ like husband and wife, they live in harmony. Right click can boost our productivity more than 100%, but for reasons we can disable this feature maybe just for fun or maybe for security reasons. Here how we can disable this feature.

1. Click Start > Run > type ‘ regedit ‘ to open registry editor.
2. Find this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\

CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

3. On the right pane make a new DWORD value, and named it ‘NoViewContextMenu ‘ (Right click on empty space on the right pane and choose New >DWORD Value).
4. Double click that new DWORD value and set the value to ‘1’ to disable it.
5. Restart the computer.

Disable Recent Documents History

This feature can be a “spyware” in the wrong hand, why? Even this feature looks like simple and harmless, this feature can make records which documents we opened, so if we working on private documents that mean another user can track down on those documents. Of course you can disable this feature, but you also can make this feature enable but not to record anything. I prefer second option than the first one, because with this option we feel like a winner on spying game. Wants to be a winner? follow these steps.

1. Click Start > Run > type ‘ regedit ‘ to open registry editor.
2. Find this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\

CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

3. On the right pane make a new DWORD value, and named it ‘NoRecentDocsHistory ‘ (Right click on empty space on the right pane and choose New >DWORD Value).
4. Double click that new DWORD value and set the value to ‘1’ to enable it.
5. Restart the computer.

Restrict Users from Running Specific Applications

We have more than one applications installed on our computer, and sometimes we also have more than one user. Some applications are not for every users, some applications could be very dangerous in the wrong hand, so we have to do something about this. Yes we can restrict users from running specific applications. Follow these steps to make it happen.

1. Click Start > Run and type ‘ regedit ‘ to open registry editor.
2. Find this key from left pane:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\

CurrentVersion \Policies\Explorer

3. Create a new DWORD value and name it "DisallowRun" set the value to "1" to enable application restrictions or "0" to allow all applications to run. Right click on the right pane > New > DWORD Value.
4. Then create a new sub-key called [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun] and define the applications to be restricted. Create a new string value for each application, named as consecutive numbers, and setting the value to the filename to be restricted. To create a new sub-key called DisallowRun, right click on the key Explorer then choose New > Key, named it DisallowRun. Now to make string value to restrict applications, click on new key you just created ‘DisallowRun’ from the left pane, then point your mouse to right pane on empty space and right click then choose New > String Value, named it as consecutive number (named it ‘1’ then the next string value named it ‘2’). Double click on that string value and then put application’s name that you want to restrict (if you want to restrict notepad then type in ‘ notepad.exe ‘ ), for each application that you want to restrict you have to make a new string value.
5. Close registry editor, and try to run an application that you restricted before. You’ll get a warning message.

Note: Don’t restrict regedit, you can’t disable this feature if you restrict regedit.