Re: preventing programs from adding entry to the New Template

From: Debra Earle (newsgroups@intranet-works.com)
Date: 08/04/02 

Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 23:56:28 -0700
From: Debra Earle <newsgroups@intranet-works.com>

LongBow wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have this annoyance about proprams that I want to prevent. Whenever a new
> program is installed it will add a new entry to the New Template so you can
> easily create a file of that type. Well, I hate this little feature and
> eventually you have a ton of them listed. I know you can either use TweakUI
> and delete them or go to the registry, find the file extension then delete the
> ShellNew key, but whenever you run that program again it will add it again. I
> want to prevent any program from adding this entry. Is there a way to do this
> on a NT/2K/XP machines? I figured perhaps with the Group Policy Editor (
> GPEDIT.MSC ), but I don't know where this option would be housed? Perhaps I
> need to add a new Key entry in the registy? Thanks
>
> Mark

No. You can run 3rd-party registry management programs and not allow some
changes, but that's pretty much all you can do.

-- DE

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