Question Re 442.html

[MichaelFH]

"Internet Explorer 5 Restrictions" (http://www.regedit.com/detail/442.html) shows various restrictions which can be used to tailor IE5. The key given (\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions) does not appear anywhere in the Registry on my Windows NT4.0(SP5) PC. The instructions say "find the key". Should I actually be creating the part which is missing?

Sorry if this is a rather silly question!

Regards

Michael

[jstolz]

Well, doesn't sound silly to me...

First of all, when you say you can't "find the key", you're saying you can't find the "Restrictions" subkey, right?--I mean you do have the \Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer key with all the myriad of subkeys?

Second--If 1 above is true, then yes, just create the Restrictions subkey -- just note the language about which Hive (HKEY_WHATEVER) to use.

Finally, there's a few more things you can do under this key with these intuitively obvious value names:

"NoAddressBar"=dword:00000001
"NoToolBar"=dword:00000001
"NoLinksBar"=dword:00000001

Regards...

[MichaelFH]

Thanks for your responce. In fact I have only got the "\Software\Policies\Microsoft\" part. I guess that if I can create the "restrictions" subkey, logically the same should be true for the "Internet Explorer" part as well. But that is making the assumption that MS Registry is logical!

Regards

Michael

[jstolz]

That's correct--but I'm a bit surprised that the IE installation process didn't already create these keys (with the exception of the \Restrictions subkey). There's a lot of info under the \Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer key... maybe they're created when you apply changes through the Internet Options applet in Control Panel...

Regards...