I think the setting you want is ‘disable computer management’. That is the one that seems to be killing it here without killing the control panel.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim Sent: Thursday, May 1, 2014 10:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Disable the f**king Charms bar in Windows 8.1 All of my control panel items are availabile, James must have some other setting in place in addition. I will start digging right now, I got distracted by an ASA issue…we are cutting over our ISP real soon. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles F Sullivan Sent: Thursday, May 1, 2014 10:07 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Disable the f**king Charms bar in Windows 8.1 Just trying to understand this fully, since it really has my interest. Do you mean that with that GP setting in place, there is no way to get to the Control Panel, or just not via the Charms? For example, if you right click on the Start Button and choose it that way. On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:31 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Yes, Change PC Settings now gone (good!) - but now if I click on Control Panel, I get "operation cancelled due to restrictions in effect....etc." (bad!). Users here will be up in arms if they can't get access to change mouse sensitivity, accessibility options, etc. which they are used to doing through Control Panel. Hate to say this but Windows 8.1 just isn't really suitable for enterprise deployment, based on the experiences I am having here. I'd love to be corrected in this viewpoint though.... On 1 May 2014 14:25, James Rankin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: The only problem is, I think this also disables all Control Panel items, which I don't want to do....one step forward, two back :-( On 1 May 2014 14:24, James Rankin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Just discovered Prohibit Access to PC Settings in my GPOs list....let's see if this helps, I'm assuming it was the one Jim was referring to :-) On 1 May 2014 13:56, James Rankin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Anything to close the various parts of this annoying thing off would help, please do dig it up, cheers! On 1 May 2014 13:52, Kennedy, Jim <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: When I select ‘Change PC Settings’ I get blocked by one of my GPO’s. If you want to go that route let me know and I will dig in and find out which it is. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Thursday, May 1, 2014 8:48 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Disable the f**king Charms bar in Windows 8.1 But, I can still alter the proxy through Charms menu and select Settings, Change PC Settings, Network, Proxy, and find that the box is there to change it. Does your testing show different? I'd be interested to know if it was something peculiar to this environment. Cheers, JR On 1 May 2014 13:39, Rod Trent <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Right-click on the taskbar, choose properties, goto the Navigation tab. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Thursday, May 1, 2014 7:59 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] Disable the f**king Charms bar in Windows 8.1 Does anyone know how to kill this annoyance? I've disabled the top left and top right mouse "hot corners" using the Registry, but if I move the mouse to the bottom right-hand corner of the screen and move it up along the edge, that wretched Charms bar appears. I need to disable this because users can use the Charms bar to bypass the proxy, amongst other things, even though I've got all these settings locked down via GPO. I'd prefer to do this via a Registry setting to make sure it stays put. Does anyone have a way of making this damned thing go away? It's driving me insane as I am now spending way too much time doing the desktop UX than I had planned for.... 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