Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Add Menu Bar in IE Internet Explorer using registry key

Using this registry key allows Menu Bar to be shown when you open IE 9 on Windows 7 64bit.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"AlwaysShowMenus"=-

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"AlwaysShowMenus"=dword:00000001

To remove Menu Bar from IE:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"AlwaysShowMenus"=-

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"AlwaysShowMenus"=dword:00000000

To allow Menu Bar to be turned on and off by the user:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"AlwaysShowMenus"=-

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"AlwaysShowMenus"=-

Friday, August 8, 2014

Disable Windows Defender using registry key in SCCM TS

Windows Defender can be disabled with following two registry keys which can be included in SCCM 2007 Task Sequence:

reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Defender" /v DisableAntiSpyware /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f /reg:64

reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows Defender" /v DisableAntiSpyware /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f /reg:64


The following two components are successfully tested on Windows 7 SP1 x64: