Prohibit changes

Prevents the user from enabling or disabling Active Desktop or changing the Active Desktop configuration.This is a comprehensive setting that locks down the configuration you establish by using other policies in this folder. This setting removes the Web tab from Display in Control Panel. As a result users cannot enable or disable Active Desktop. If Active Desktop is already enabled users cannot add remove or edit Web content or disable lock or synchronize Active Desktop components.

Policy path: 

Desktop\Desktop

Scope: 

User

Supported on: 

Windows Server 2003 Windows XP and Windows 2000 only

Registry settings: 

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer!NoActiveDesktopChanges

Filename: 

Desktop.admx

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