Control The Start Menu/Taskbar Using Group Policies
This is only available for WINDOWS 2K/XP
The Windows Start menu and taskbar provide quick access to a variety of
applications and services, some of which you might not want readily available
to your users. For example, you might want to remove the Run or Help commands
from the Start menu, prevent Windows from keeping a document history, or
configure Windows to clear the document history when the user exits. You can
accomplish these types of tasks through group policy.
To view the policies you can configure for the Start menu and taskbar, open
the Microsoft Management Console (MMC), and add the Group Policy console for
the local computer. Or open a group policy object from the Active Directory
Users And Computers console on a server.
Navigate to User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Start Menu & Taskbar.
This branch contains more than 20 policies that remove features from the Start
menu and disable functions such as drag-and-drop context menus on the Start
menu. To view more information about a particular policy, double-click the
policy, and select the Explain tab.