Block Access to My Computer Properties Menu in Windows 7 and Vista

Posted on October 30th, 2009 in GPO, Microsoft, Vista, Windows 7 by Gil Kreslavsky

In System properties window you can various information about Windows system .
You may wish to block it to prevent users from accessing it and do changes.

You can easily disable access to My Computer context menu through AD Group Policy.
This solution doesn’t block access to menus, only hides it from right click. Menu can still be accessed Windows key + Pause/Break key.

To disable it Open Group Policy Manager
Navigate to User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Desktop
Double Click on “Remove Properties from the Computer icon context menu” and change it to “Enabled”