You may need to prevent your users from accessing the Computer Tab on My Computer property for security or some other reason. There is no any Group Policy setting available to disable this but you can set the permissions on the NetID.DLL file which implements the necessary functions to show this Tab on My Computer property. You need to use the steps mentioned below to do so:
Steps:
- Search NetID.DLL file on the local computer.
- Remove or set the following permissions to hide the Computer Tab.
Administrators – Full Control
Power Users – Read & Execute, Read
System – Full Control
The default NTFS permissions are:
Administrators – Full Control
Power Users – Read & Execute, Read
System – Full Control
Users – Read & Execute, Read
Note: You can also create a script to deploy the permissions set on NetID.DLL using the Group Policy.
