IE

[napoleao]

Is it possible to remove the URL adress input, the buttons, and only give access to the back and foward buttin and refresh?
We dont want users to give elsewhere apart from the main site and its links

thanks

 

[gabe036]

You can use the IEAK (Internet Explorer Administration Kit) to customize IE. Its a free down load from the microsoft site. You would be able to modify the tool bars not to show any of the items you mentioned.

 

[reghakr]

napoleao,

More IE restrictions can be found here:

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/4936/ie_restrictions.html

The Btn_ entries control the buttons. A value of 00000002 hides the button, but you must also specify SpecifyDefaultButtons with a value of 00000001 for it to
work correctly. I've added the ones below so that only the Back, forward, and Refresh are available: First open the file in Notepad and change the values to 0 so you have an undo policy to disable the restrictions with a click of a reg file.

The NoDrives value of 00000004 hides the C: drive. Look on the site for other entries.

open Notepad and copy and paste the following between the lines and save the file as restrictIE.reg. Double-click on the file to merge the contents into the registry.

==========BEGIN CUT=============

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoDriveTypeAutoRun"=hex:95,00,00,00
"EditLevel"=dword:00000000
"NoSaveSettings"=hex:00,00,00,00
"DisableRegistryTools"=dword:00000000
"NoStartBanner"=hex:00,00,00,00
"CDRAutoRun"=hex:00,00,00,00
"NoBandCustomize"=dword:00000001
"NoStartMenuSubFolders"=dword:00000001
"ClassicShell"=dword:00000000
"NoCommonGroups"=dword:00000001
"RestrictRun"=dword:00000000
"NoNetConnectDisconnect"=dword:00000000
"NoInstrumentation"=dword:00000000
"NoNavButtons"=dword:00000000
"NoToolbarCustomize"=dword:00000001
"NoRecentDocsHistory"=dword:00000000
"NoFavoritesMenu"=hex:01,00,00,00
"NoRecentDocsMenu"=hex:01,00,00,00
"NoRun"=dword:00000001
"NoContextMenu"=dword:00000001
"Btn_Back"=dword:00000000
"Btn_Forward"=dword:00000000
"Btn_Stop"=dword:00000002
"Btn_Refresh"=dword:00000000
"Btn_Home"=dword:00000002
"Btn_Search"=dword:00000002
"Btn_History"=dword:00000002
"Btn_Favorites"=dword:00000002
"Btn_Folders"=dword:00000002
"Btn_Fullscreen"=dword:00000002
"Btn_Tools"=dword:00000002
"Btn_MailNews"=dword:00000002
"Btn_Size"=dword:00000002
"Btn_Print"=dword:00000002
"Btn_Edit"=dword:00000002
"Btn_Discussions"=dword:00000002
"Btn_Cut"=dword:00000002
"Btn_Copy"=dword:00000002
"Btn_Paste"=dword:00000002
"Btn_Encoding"=dword:00000002
"SpecifyDefaultButtons"=dword:00000001
"Btn_Media"=dword:00000002
"NoSetTaskbar"=dword:00000001
"NoActiveDesktop"=dword:00000001
"NoExpandedNewMenu"=dword:00000001
"NoChangeStartMenu"=dword:00000001
"NoViewContextMenu"=dword:00000001
"NoWinKeys"=dword:00000001
"NoControlPanel"=dword:00000001
"NoNetworkConnections"=dword:00000001
"NoShellSearchButton"=dword:00000001
"NoSMHelp"=dword:00000000
"NoWindowsUpdate"=dword:00000001
"NoTrayContextMenu"=dword:00000001
"NoSetFolders"=dword:00000001
"NoNetHood"=dword:00000001
"NoInternetIcon"=dword:00000001
"NoFind"=dword:00000001
"NoDesktop"=dword:00000000
"NoDrives"=dword:00000004
=============END CUT================

You can make more modifications by using a freeware program named Resource Hacker. It's available here;

http://www.rpi.net.au/~ajohnson/resourcehacker/

You can open the browselc.dll file and grey out many menu entries.

reghakr