Monday, 7 April 2014

How to remove all games from Games Explorer on windows.?

Here are few ways that helps to enable or disable the games from Games Explorer.

Through regedit:
1. Open regedit.exe through run.
2. Navigate to the location : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
3. Delete the key "gameux".

Through UI:
1. Open "Turn Windows Features On or OFF" through  start.
2. Disable Games.

Thursday, 3 April 2014

Registry Key to Disable shutdown

Here is the registry key which prevents a machine from shutdown by disabling the option. In-order to make it work, follow the below steps,

1. Open regedit.
2. Navigate to the path:  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
3. Create a DWORD "NoClose" and modify the data to "1" to disable shutdown option.

The above registry path is for all the users and if it is to be implemented only for a particular user, use the location, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer and do the same.