Disable right clicking Start Button

Question

_{Thursday, May 23, 2019 7:10 PM}

Hi, I am looking for a policy that removes the ability to right click on the start button or use the Windows key + X, does anyone know of a way? Also is there a way to prevent Powershell from being run?

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_{Friday, May 24, 2019 1:41 AM ✅Answered}

In Windows 10 there is no group policy available to disable the Win + X keyboard shortcut keys, but we could customize it, if you would like to have it with no entries, then we could deploy with a scripts to delete the WinX folder under:

C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WinX

Or consider to remove all the shortcuts in there.

Another method:

Use Regedit and navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Enter a  New - DWORD Value

Use name -> NoTrayContextMenu

Set the new value to 1

To re-enable set to 0

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_{Wednesday, May 29, 2019 7:14 AM ✅Answered}

Would you mind letting me know the update of the problem? If you need further assistance, feel free to let me know.

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_{Saturday, March 28, 2020 10:39 AM}

Hi,

I have tried disabling the Right click option on "Start Button" using the above proposed answers (i.e Removing the WinX folders and setting the registry key "NoTrayContextMenu") but even after applying these fixes, it doesn't disable right click option.

However, after removing the content in Winx folders, when I click on one of the items in right click Menu, it gives me an error saying that the  the shortcut files are not found as shown below. Blocking items in this way only serves the purpose partially in my case.

Can you please recommend any other solution which can completely disable the right click option for Standard user.

Thanks

Narasimha

Narasimha Reddy K