Intel and NVidia context menu

[gerardsweeney]

All..

 

Possibly I'm late to the party, and everyone already does this, but just in case..

 

I've seen assorted suggestions about getting rid of the Intel and/or NVidia context menu which revolve around deleting

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\igfxcui

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\igfxDTCM

and

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\NvCplDesktopContext

 

I didn't want to do that because it affects all users. And if I ever needed to undo it, it was potentially a pain because of GUID values etc.

 

 

Instead, I've created a GPO applied to pupil accounts which adds the following:

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\igfxcui
@ = REG_SZ "{0}"

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\igfxDTCM
@ = REG_SZ "{0}"

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\NvCplDesktopContext
@ = REG_SZ "{0}"

 

 

When applied, pupils don't get the Intel or Nvidia context menus because the HKCU value over-rides the HKLM value, and there's no such thing as GUID 0.

 

Seems to work here on our Windows 10 setup?

 

 

 

 

Cheers,

Gerard

Edited September 11, 2018 by gerardsweeney