Right clicking and security

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Date: 10/06/03 

Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 13:09:08 GMT

Our local library disabled right clicking in a few programs on their
computers (all Win2K). Now the contextual menus are not available when
right clicking the Desktop's Start button, or on a file name while in
Windows Explorer. The librarian claimed that that was done to prevent
users from hacking their computers. Is this a valid reason? How can an
user hack a computer with right clicking that he cannot do otherwise?

In the Google newsgroup archive there are a few posters wanting to
disable right clicking the Start button to prevent an user from opening
Windows Explorer that way. Why is that a concern? With right clicking
disabled, an user can still open Windows Explorer by the Start/Programs
route. What am I missing here?

A related question. When I right click on the Start buttons on different
computers (all running Win2K), the contextual menus have different
options listed. How can I customize or control what appear in these
menus?

Thanks.

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