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Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. Ghost Chili. M Boyle This person is a verified professional. I will give that script a look-see. Pure Capsaicin. The Decrapifier Script works well! Try this too in Powershell Powershell. I haven't tried v2 at this point, so I can't recommend it, but v1 rocks. Hope this helps! Conor Apr 26, at UTC. Steve Zemanek This person is a verified professional.

Most of those tiles are basically just hyperlinks. So I found the best thing to do is clean up the tiles the way you want and run in powershell as admin: Powershell. Thank you everyone for your replies. You can choose whether you wish for this policy to be applied to user or computer objects. If you want it to apply to both, you will need to create the settings for them both you can do this in the same policy.

This group policy has no software restriction policies defined already on it. You can define such policies, but they will override policies defined by parent objects. To define software restriction policies, in the Admin menu click Create New Policies. In the right-hand pane or below 'Security Settings' in the left pane , double click 'Additional Rules'.

When the list of rules appears - there should be four already defined - right-click in the right-hand pane, and click 'New Hash Rule'. This box allows you to browse for the file in question either on your system or through the network.

The file hash is calculated after you've selected your file, and the information is automatically pulled and populates the 'File information' text box. If this information does not exist, you can enter it manually. Below this, you can set the Security level to 'Disallowed' or 'Unrestricted' - you may want 'Unrestricted' if you are locking down everything and want to create some exceptions Once this GPO is applied, it should refresh automatically default time is 90 minutes , disallowing access to the programs you specified.

Not sure if the policy is applying correctly? Run 'GPResult' on the box and get a detailed output of applied policies and settings to the logged in user and computer. So, now, when your user attempts to run a restricted program, they will see a message like the following:.

For more information, open Event Viewer or contact your system administrator. If you still have problems with some people who are able to run freecell, etc. As you can see, using GPOs can help you to control a access to programs or folders on your client computers, but it isn't fool-proof. If you continue to have issues with users bringing in video games, unlicensed or generally unauthorized software, no amount of GPO limiting will solve this problem Nice work as usual Rob, thanks for sharing.

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