Category: At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

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.

This policy setting allows you to turn off feature advertisement balloon notifications. If you enable this policy setting certain notification balloons that are marked as feature advertisements are not shown. If you disable do not configure this policy setting feature advertisement balloons are shown.

This policy setting allows you to control displaying or tracking items in Jump Lists from remote locations. The Start Menu and Taskbar display Jump Lists off of programs. These menus include files folders websites and other relevant items for that program. This helps users more easily reopen their most important documents and other tasks. If you enable this policy setting the Start Menu and Taskbar only track the files that the user opens locally on this computer. Files that the user opens over the network from remote computers are not tracked or shown in the Jump Lists. Use this setting to reduce network traffic particularly over slow network connections. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting all files that the user opens appear in the menus including files located remotely on another computer. Note: This setting does not prevent Windows from displaying remote files that the user has explicitly pinned to the Jump Lists. See the “”Do not allow pinning items in Jump Lists”” policy setting.

This policy setting allows you to remove the Action Center from the system control area. If you enable this policy setting the Action Center icon is not displayed in the system notification area. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the Action Center icon is displayed in the system notification area.

Prevents the Touch Keyboard and Handwriting panel (a. k. a. Tablet PC Input Panel in Windows 7 and Windows Vista) from providing text prediction suggestions. This policy applies for both the on-screen keyboard and the handwriting tab when the feature is available for the current input area and input language. Touch Keyboard and Handwriting panel enables you to use handwriting or an on-screen keyboard to enter text symbols numbers or keyboard shortcuts. If you enable this policy Input Panel will not provide text prediction suggestions. Users will not be able to configure this setting in the Input Panel Options dialog box. If you disable this policy Input Panel will provide text prediction suggestions. Users will not be able to configure this setting in the Input Panel Options dialog box. If you do not configure this policy Input Panel will provide text prediction suggestions. Users will be able to configure this setting on the Text Completion tab in Input Panel Options in Windows 7 and Windows Vista.

If you enable this policy a “See more results” / “Search Everywhere” link will not be shown when the user performs a search in the start menu search box. If you disable or do not configure this policy a “See more results” link will be shown when the user performs a search in the start menu search box. If a 3rd party protocol handler is installed a “Search Everywhere” link will be shown instead of the “See more results” link.