Re: preventing programs from adding entry to the New Template

From: LongBow (piggy@mud.pool)
Date: 08/04/02 

From: LongBow <piggy@mud.pool>
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 18:27:00 GMT

What type of third party managment programs allow one to perform suck task?
Thanks

Mark

Debra Earle <newsgroups@intranet-works.com> wrote:

>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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