Windows 8 & 10 File Explorer Ribbon Customizer (ADM Template)

[jacobjb]

It took much longer than expected, but I finally managed to convert @jacobjb's ADM to ADMX format. The attachment below also contains @PyROm's addition from post #4 and en-GB/en-US ADMLs.

 

 

Apologies for never getting back to you @Arthur. I've been super busy recently and haven't been active on the forum. I thought I had notifications enabled for this thread but I didn't so I have only just seen your message after logging in months later. Thank you for converting it to ADMX very much appreciated

[maxrebo]

I`m probably missing something but I can get the policies to take effect, as a test I`ve disabled a few (In the Home tab\New Folder), Gpupdate, reboot several times and there still live.

(From previous comments I believe it should grey them out)

I've tried this on W10 1709 and also 1809.

Is there other polices that need to be enabled for these to work?

[Jaan]

Is it because you have to Enable them to "Disable" them.

 

[Jaan]

My my example below;

 

I have Disabled "Disable New folder" in order to "Enable" it.

 

Caught me out in the past.

 

Hope that helps

 

[maxrebo]

Yeah I`ve tried that, disabling them and then trying Enable but it doesn't seem to apply whatever way.

 

My my example below;

 

I have Disabled "Disable New folder" in order to "Enable" it.

 

Caught me out in the past.

 

Hope that helps

 

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[sav2212]

Thanks a lot everybody, works like a charm :-)

[unseremuttie]

I've enabled/disabled the next options in the "View Tab" but is doens't work:

 

- Disable Show Hidden Files

- Disable Options

- Disable Show File Extension

 

Windows version: W10 LTSB

 

Does anyone knows a solution?

[MrEprise]

I've found a solution where trying to re-enable a previously disabled button doesn't work but this does require editing the ADM or ADMX file to do.

 

For example: in order to disable "Map Network Drive" it sets a registry dword entry of "ImpliedSelectionModel" which is set to "dec:00000000" and theoretically this is then changed to "dec:00100000" to re-enable the button. However this doesn't quite work as expected (I think later builds of Windows 10 expect a different value) and I had to get the ADMX to delete the reg entry in order for it to enable again.

[CallMeMonks]

Any idea how to remove the changes? I applied the settings to a PC in a AD OU, removed the PC from the OU but the settings are still present. I tired deleting the correspoding registry items but I am unable to delete them. Any ideas?

[MrEprise]

You have to re-enable the disabled items in the policy while its pointing to those computers. I think the GPO actually deletes entries from the registry when you disable items and re-enabling them puts those entries back.

 

EDIT: Nope, ignore that last bit. Yes it adds entries into the registry but as Group Policy has the required permissions to write to those keys, you'll either need to give yourself permission to delete them or use the policy to remove them.

Edited October 19, 2020 by MrEprise

[CallMeMonks]

You have to re-enable the disabled items in the policy while its pointing to those computers. I think the GPO actually deletes entries from the registry when you disable items and re-enabling them puts those entries back.

 

EDIT: Nope, ignore that last bit. Yes it adds entries into the registry but as Group Policy has the required permissions to write to those keys, you'll either need to give yourself permission to delete them or use the policy to remove them.

 

I created a new OU, created a new GPO, changed all the items to disable, added the PC in question to the OU, carried out a gpupdate /force, restarted the PC serveral times but nothing changes. Any ideas?

[El-Fuerte-Brazil]

I created a new OU, created a new GPO, changed all the items to disable, added the PC in question to the OU, carried out a gpupdate /force, restarted the PC serveral times but nothing changes. Any ideas?

 

unfortunately there is no way, I know it is difficult on a daily basis but the ideal is to create restore points whenever you are going to touch external registries and policies that are not native to the system. Sorry for the bad English, I'm using a translator.

[El-Fuerte-Brazil]

Microsoft could release all possible changes, configurations and customizations so that anyone using Windows Server can make the system suitable for each institution or company's needs, but they are late in time for this! It would be great if someone created an ADM or ADMX file that definitively changes whatever we wanted in the system, at least graying out the options or hiding them from the user's view without removing them from the system so as not to harm the functioning, but as I said they It's late boys to have these functions for administrators if it depends on Microsoft ! Edited May 13, 2024 by El-Fuerte-Brazil