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Siim K
Asked: 2010-01-28 05:08:20 +0800 CST

GPO to remove "Highlight new programs"?

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I need to disable the "highlight new programs" feature in Windows start menu via a GPO but can't find such a setting. Does such a thing even exist or is it achievable only through registry modification?

Client machines are Win XP, server is Win 2003

windows-server-2003 group-policy

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  1. Best Answer

    Unfortunately I don't believe there is a GPO option to disable this. However this option is set by a registry setting so you could create a startup script to set this registry key, to disable this option.

    The registry value you're looking for is:

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"Start_NotifyNewApps"=dword:{00000000|00000001}

    It's a REG_DWORD value and should be set to 0 to disable the highlighting, 1 to enable it.

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