Friday, March 7, 2008

Disable Access to Add or Remove Programs, restrict other users from uninstalling any programs

Start regedit by go to start > run & type in regedit and press enter.

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies

Right click on policies & create a new key by selecting new > key.

Name the new key Uninstall

Now select the newly created key ie Uninstall.

Now create a new DWORD value on the right pane of the regedit window

and name it NoAddRemovePrograms and set value to 1.




This should disable your Add or Remove Programs.



To re-enable your Add or Remove Programs just set the early created

NoAddRemovePrograms keys value to 0

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