Click around or view the Microsoft documentation for a list of all of them. Once you have an idea of what you GPOs you want to set, using Group Policy Editor to make the changes is pretty simple.
Many sysadmins are moving to PowerShell instead of the UI to manage group policies. Here are a few of the PowerShell GroupPolicy cmdlets to get you started. The gpedit application is very simplistic for a tool that is supposed to help secure your entire enterprise. GPO updates occur at some time interval on computers throughout the network differently or on a reboot.
Therefore, the time between your changes and all computers on the network receiving this change is unknown. Attackers can change local group policies using the same gpedit, or PowerShell, which can undo any protections you have enabled on that system. Several companies provide alternative group policy editing tools, and you can learn how to make all the changes with PowerShell to make your job simpler.
However, gpedit does not have any native auditing built-in, so you need to have a rock-solid change management plan and audit all GPO changes independently to ensure your enterprise remains secure. Varonis detects threats by monitoring and correlating current activity against normalized behavior and advanced data security threat models to detect APT attacks, malware infections, brute-force attacks, including attempts to change GPOs.
Yes, you could perform this tweak in Windows 7 Home and Home Premium using the Registry Editor, but then you wouldn't be able to reverse it because the Registry Editor would be disabled! In my book Windows 7 Unleashed , I provide a script that toggles the corresponding Registry setting on and off; see that book for more info. If you want to prevent a novice user from mucking around in Security and Privacy tabs in the Internet Options dialog box, you can hide them:.
Note that the Security Page sub-branch also enables you to set policies for the settings in each zone. Of these five commands, all but Switch User are customizable using group policies. So if you find that you never use one or more of those commands, or more likely if you want to prevent a user from accessing one or more of the commands, you can use group policies to remove them from the Windows Security window.
Here are the steps to follow:. To perform the same tweak using the Registry , open the Registry Editor and open the following key:. The area that contains these icons is called the Places bar. If you have two or more folders that you use regularly for example, you might have several folders for various projects that you have on the go , switching between them can be a hassle. To make this chore easier, you can customize the Places bar to include icons for each of these folders.
That way, no matter which location you have displayed in the Save As or Open dialog box, you can switch to one of these regular folders with a single click of the mouse. The easiest way to do this is via the Local Group Policy Editor, as shown in the following steps:. Open the Registry Editor and navigate to the following key:.
When you select Start Shut Down, Windows 7 proceeds to shut down without any more input from you unless any running programs have documents with unsaved changes. That's usually a good thing, but you might want to keep track of why you shut down or restart Windows 7, or why the system itself initiates a shutdown or restart. To do that, you can enable a feature called Shutdown Event Tracker. With this feature, you can document the shutdown event by specifying whether it is planned or unplanned, selecting a reason for the shutdown, and adding a comment that describes the shutdown.
Paul McFedries is a full-time technical writer who has worked with computers in one form or another since and has used Windows since version 1 was foisted upon an unsuspecting and underwhelmed world in the mids.
He is the author of more than 60 computer books, which have sold more than three million copies worldwide. Type gpedit. Press Enter.
The word Local refers to the fact that you're editing group policies on your own computer, not on some remote computer. Note: This article is available as a PDF download. You can also download the sample chapter "Tweaking the Windows 7 Registry" from the author's recently published book Windows 7 Unleashed.
In fact, are two ways to prevent a user from turning off delete confirmations: Disable the Display Delete Confirmation Dialog check box that appears in the Recycle Bin's property sheet. Disable the Recycle Bin's Properties command so that the user can't display the Recycle Bin's property sheet. Open the Administrative Templates branch. Of course, we can change those settings to suit our needs. Under Password Policy we can change things such as maximum and minimum password age, minimum password length and complexity requirements, etc.
In our case these settings are not configured, but we can change that to suit our needs. For example, it is a good idea to change the minimum length of passwords from 0, to prevent blank passwords. If we enable Password history policy, users will have to use unique passwords every time they change it. Maximum password age has to be configured for password history to take effect. Maximum password age enforces users to change passwords after specified length of time.
Password complexity policy prevents using simple passwords which are easy to crack. Keep in mind that these account lockout policy applies to all users on local computer, including the Administrator account.
This is the case on local machines, so we should be careful when setting account lockout policy on local machines.
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