Disable right click on the desktop and explorer in Windows 7

As a security measure, you may want to restrict users not to get the right click context menu in Windows 7 desktop and explorer. Here is a tutorial, on how to disable right click on the desktop and explorer in Windows 7.

As we have said in our previous tutorials; Disable access to Windows Task Manager in Windows 7 and Disable right click on the taskbar in Windows 7; this trick can be used to for creating a Windows 7 based KIOSK or embedded system, for banks or other institutions, or any where where the administrator simply do not want the user to know what operating system is running or simply to stop users to customize the particular computer.

Click Start button, type œregedit (without the quotation marks) and press Enter from keyboard. Accept the security prompt to run Windows registry editor:

Go to the key: œHKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Policies ; create a new sub key named œExplorer by right click over Policies > New > Key :

In the right pane, create a new 32 bit DWORD value named œNoViewContextMenu and set as data œ1 (Simply right click on the right pane > New > 32 bit DWORD value to create it):

Now when you right click on the desktop or explorer, Simply nothing happens.

To re enable right click on the desktop or explorer again, simply delete the subkey you have created or, set the value to œ0 (Zero).