Group Policy Settings for
Windows 7

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Changing these Group Policy settings do not have any adverse effects on the way Windows 7 operates.

How ever any changes to the GPO should be done with the utmost care, changing the wrong GPO may cause you to become locked out of the computer.

These listings are unsorted from the 'All Settings' list, you will see multiple instances of the same GPO, when I turn off one instance I turn off all instances of the GPO, thus causing less confusion.

Some of the settings correspond with services that have been disabled also. Some MCSE's will point out that if a service is disabled then disabling the GPO is redundant. How ever if the service is  disabled and the GPO is not then someone can enable and start the service with out your knowledge, thus opening a security hole that you thought was closed. This way if a say a virus has the ability to turn on the Firewall service and open a port with the GPO for the Firewall disabled the virus will not be able to connect to the internet. Something to think about.

Machine Settings

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User Settings

Setting	State
Add "Run in Separate Memory Space" check box to Run dialog box	Enabled
Add Logoff to the Start Menu	Enabled
Add the Run command to the Start Menu	Enabled
Configure HTTP Proxy	Enabled
Disk Defragmenter	Enabled
Disk Management	Enabled
Do not allow Windows Messenger to be run	Enabled
Do not automatically start Windows Messenger initially	Enabled
Do not collect InPrivate Filtering data	Enabled
Do not display the Welcome Center at user logon	Enabled
Do not save encrypted pages to disk	Enabled
FAX Service	Disabled
Force classic Start Menu	Enabled
Indexing Service	Disabled
No Computers Near Me in Network Locations	Enabled
Prevent CD and DVD Media Information Retrieval	Enabled
Remote Access	Disabled
Remote Desktop Services Configuration	Disabled
Remote Desktops	Disabled
Remote Installation Services	Disabled
Remove Balloon Tips on Start Menu items	Enabled
Remove the "Undock PC" button from the Start Menu	Enabled
Remove the Action Center icon	Enabled

I will repeat my warning from above -

Any changes to the GPO should be done with the utmost care, changing the wrong GPO may cause you to become locked out of the computer, cause it to be unstable, or even Blue Screen on start up. Use with the utmost care!

I cover these GPO's and over 150 more in the Windows 7 Ultimate Guide.

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