Tag: User Configuration
Prevent users from adding or removing toolbars
This policy setting allows you to prevent users from adding or removing toolbars. If you enable this policy setting the user is not allowed to add or remove any toolbars to the taskbar. Applications are not able to add toolbars either. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the users and applications are able to add toolbars to the taskbar.
Prevent users from rearranging toolbars
This policy setting allows you to prevent users from rearranging toolbars. If you enable this policy setting users are not able to drag or drop toolbars to the taskbar. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting users are able to rearrange the toolbars on the taskbar.
Turn off all balloon notifications
This policy setting allows you to turn off all notification balloons. If you enable this policy setting no notification balloons are shown to the user. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting notification balloons are shown to the user.
Prevent users from moving taskbar to another screen dock location
This policy setting allows you to prevent users from moving taskbar to another screen dock location. If you enable this policy setting users are not able to drag their taskbar to another area of the monitor(s). If you disable or do not configure this policy setting users are able to drag their taskbar to another area of the monitor unless prevented by another policy setting.
Prevent users from resizing the taskbar
This policy setting allows you to prevent users from resizing the taskbar. If you enable this policy setting users are not be able to resize their taskbar. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting users are able to resize their taskbar unless prevented by another setting.
Turn off taskbar thumbnails
This policy setting allows you to turn off taskbar thumbnails. If you enable this policy setting the taskbar thumbnails are not displayed and the system uses standard text for the tooltips. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the taskbar thumbnails are displayed.
Remove pinned programs from the Taskbar
This policy setting allows you to remove pinned programs from the taskbar. If you enable this policy setting pinned programs are prevented from being shown on the Taskbar. Users cannot pin programs to the Taskbar. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting users can pin programs so that the program shortcuts stay on the Taskbar.
Turn off automatic promotion of notification icons to the taskbar
This policy setting allows you to turn off automatic promotion of notification icons to the taskbar. If you enable this policy setting newly added notification icons are not temporarily promoted to the Taskbar. Users can still configure icons to be shown or hidden in the Notification Control Panel. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting newly added notification icons are temporarily promoted to the Taskbar.
Turn off hardware buttons
Turns off Tablet PC hardware buttons. If you enable this policy no actions will occur when the buttons are pressed and the buttons tab in Tablet PC Control Panel will be removed. If you disable this policy user and OEM defined button actions will occur when the buttons are pressed. If you do not configure this policy user and OEM defined button actions will occur when the buttons are pressed.
Prevent Flicks Learning Mode
Makes pen flicks learning mode unavailable. If you enable this policy pen flicks are still available but learning mode is not. Pen flicks are off by default and can be turned on system-wide but cannot be restricted to learning mode applications. This means that the pen flicks training triggers in Internet Explorer are disabled and that the pen flicks notification will never be displayed. However pen flicks the pen flicks tray icon and pen flicks training (that can be accessed through CPL) are still available. Conceptually this policy is a subset of the Disable pen flicks policy. If you disable or do not configure this policy all the features described above will be available.