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#66779 - 2002-06-12 09:01 PM Auto Complete
Anonymous Anonymous Unregistered	Anyone come across a script that will disable autocomplete in Microsoft Internet explorer. Any help would be appreciated. Jural
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#66780 - 2002-06-12 09:24 PM Re: Auto Complete
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	easiest is to check the registry key where it is stored. don't have windows machines here so can't check it. also if you have policies enabled it can be done there too... _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#66781 - 2002-06-12 09:45 PM Re: Auto Complete
Anonymous Anonymous Unregistered	Tried that, can't find reg key for it. I can find autocomplete for web addresses but not for usernames and passwords. Jural
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#66782 - 2002-06-12 10:08 PM Re: Auto Complete
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	It does exist in Win2K GPOs. Look in "User Configuration \Administrative Templates \Windows Components \Internet Explorer" for "Do not allow AutoComplete to save passwords" quote: Description Disables automatic completion of user names and passwords in forms on Web pages, and prevents users from being prompted to save passwords. If you enable this policy, the User Names and Passwords on Forms and Prompt Me to Save Passwords check boxes appear dimmed. To display these check boxes, users open the Internet Options dialog box, click the Content tab, and then click the AutoComplete button. If you disable this policy or don't configure it, users can determine whether Internet Explorer automatically completes user names and passwords on forms and prompts them to save passwords. The Disable the Content page policy (located in User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\Internet Control Panel), which removes the Content tab from Internet Explorer in Control Panel, takes precedence over this policy. If it is enabled, this policy is ignored. _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#66783 - 2002-06-12 10:12 PM Re: Auto Complete
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	check this one: quote: Disable Internet Explorer Password Caching To disable the ability of IE 4.0 - IE 6 to cache password credentials, use Regedt32 to navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings On the Edit menu, Add Value name DisablePasswordCaching as a REG_DWORD data type. In the DWORD Editor, set the data value to 1. _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#66784 - 2002-06-12 10:16 PM Re: Auto Complete
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	Some things are best done in GPOs. Users cannot rip them from the script and if they hack them from the reg, the GPO will just put it back. _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#66785 - 2002-06-12 10:18 PM Re: Auto Complete
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	so does logonscript. "It does exist in Win2K GPOs." well, registry exists since windows 95 that's the difference why there should be also compatible solution. right? _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#66786 - 2002-06-12 10:47 PM Re: Auto Complete
NTDOC NTDOC Administrator Registered: 2000-07-28 Posts: 11628 Loc: CA	Les is right (kind of), but Jural did not say he is running AD nor whether or not he has rights on any Domain system to apply policies. Policies can be used even when the user does not have the rights to modify. Logon script in the HKLM area would need the user to be Admin or special rights applied to where the edit occurs. GPO by default reapplies itself every 90 minutes and during logon. Script will modify every time the user logs on even if the user rips it out. After a while of it being replaced by either means, the user will probably tire of changing it and leave it alone. GPO can also prevent user from modifying it.
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#66787 - 2002-06-12 10:49 PM Re: Auto Complete
BrianTX BrianTX Korg Regular Registered: 2002-04-01 Posts: 895	Hmm. are there really that many things you can do with GPO that you can't do in the registry? Just curious... (Some of us are bogged down with Wintendos machines -- as you call it) Brian
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#66788 - 2002-06-12 10:53 PM Re: Auto Complete
Radimus Radimus Moderator Registered: 2000-01-06 Posts: 5187 Loc: Tampa, FL	whether he uses GPOs or not, it is still only a registry entry... GPO is basically gui interface and method of prioritization of assorted configurations. If you really wanted to, you could write a script recurse itself to taskscheduler and schedule itself to run again after applying its registry changes. do I hear a KixGPO UDF coming??? [ 12 June 2002, 22:54: Message edited by: Radimus ] _________________________ How to ask questions the smart way <-----------> Before you ask
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#66789 - 2002-06-12 11:08 PM Re: Auto Complete
Sealeopard Sealeopard KiX Master Registered: 2001-04-25 Posts: 11165 Loc: Boston, MA, USA	I'm simulation a GPO by checking a list of registry keys in a .INI file on login. The list is even OS, group, computer, and user specific. The main routine used is posted here: ProcessRegINI() _________________________ There are two types of vessels, submarines and targets.
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#66790 - 2002-06-12 11:17 PM Re: Auto Complete
NTDOC NTDOC Administrator Registered: 2000-07-28 Posts: 11628 Loc: CA	Radimus, I'm sorry but I would have to disagree. GPO is much more powerful then just scripting entries into the Registry. Many of which are outlined above. As an Administrator, I can apply policies to your system that you CAN NOT prevent me from doing. If you place a DENY ACCESS on a key, I can over ride it and place a DENY ACCESS to you. You would have to take ownership back before you could undo my changes. Try running some tight policies and then trying to "UNDO" them with just the Registry. Many changes require a reboot, which won't work, because policy will be reapplied during logon again. Via a logon script it would be VERY difficult to even attempt to check every key and see if it has the rights to write there, if it was applied, etc... Just being a local administrator does not necessarily give you the right to write to every key in the registry. If the user placed a DENY ACCESS to EVERYONE on the key, your logon script would never be able to modify that key, using GPO I could force the modification anyway. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE KiXtart, but in order of preference and power. GPO is much more powerful then doing it via script. There are also hidden registry entries that only being logged onto the system as SYSTEM will allow you to view. You can not (even as local adminstrator) view these entries. As for Win9x, yes you can apply many policies, but since they don't actually "belong" to the Domain the security is no where near what NT/2000/XP are like. The registry has no security to stop anyone from modifying it like the others do. Then again, how many users (outside of IS) know enough about this kind of stuff to alter or stop it much??? In a company of over 3,000 desktops... we rarely see anyone alter or attempt to alter these policies or registry changes.
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#66791 - 2002-06-12 11:21 PM Re: Auto Complete
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	but this doc, wasn't this hkcu stuff in case now? and rad is correctly right, policies are just restrictions in registry. _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#66792 - 2002-06-12 11:30 PM Re: Auto Complete
Radimus Radimus Moderator Registered: 2000-01-06 Posts: 5187 Loc: Tampa, FL	the security in place on a GPO... if in the GPO interface. I don't care what security you place in a GPO, if I(anyone) has access to the registry, that can be changed. Of course once the policy is refreshed, it will change back, but the point is, the security model is only effective when the policy object gets 'compiled' and applied to the machine/user _________________________ How to ask questions the smart way <-----------> Before you ask
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#66793 - 2002-06-12 11:35 PM Re: Auto Complete
Kdyer Kdyer KiX Supporter Registered: 2001-01-03 Posts: 6241 Loc: Tigard, OR	Doing a "quickie" search in the registry, we find (export from the registry): quote: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AdvancedOptions\BROWSE\AUTOAPPEND] "RegPath"="SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\AutoComplete" "Text"="Use inline AutoComplete for Web Addresses" "PlugUIText"="@inetcplc.dll,-4852" "Type"="checkbox" "CheckedValue"="yes" "UncheckedValue"="no" "ValueName"="Append Completion" "DefaultValue"="no" "HKeyRoot"=dword:80000001 "HelpID"="iexplore.hlp#50538" HTH, Kent _________________________ Utilize these resources: UDFs (Full List) KiXtart FAQ & How to's
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#66794 - 2002-06-12 11:39 PM Re: Auto Complete
NTDOC NTDOC Administrator Registered: 2000-07-28 Posts: 11628 Loc: CA	Yes, I agree. My only point here is that using GPO is much easier and more powerful then using KiXtart. If you know what your doing, and you want to undo it... it is pretty hard to stop a "determined" person. Jural, You can use either KiXtart or Policies. Did, does this thread answer your question?
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#66795 - 2002-06-12 11:48 PM Re: Auto Complete
BrianTX BrianTX Korg Regular Registered: 2002-04-01 Posts: 895	Hmm.. I don't think it would be that difficult to create a kixtart script that parsed policy files. It also wouldn't be too difficult to test permissions. Would this be something worth doing? (No, it wouldn't be on the level of GPO, but it might be useful in many cases.) Brian
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#66796 - 2002-06-12 11:56 PM Re: Auto Complete
Radimus Radimus Moderator Registered: 2000-01-06 Posts: 5187 Loc: Tampa, FL	you could make a script that ran minimized or hidden, that 'undoes' or 'does' whatever policy/reg entries you wanted have it run make the updates use SOON.EXE to reschedule itself for 5 or 10 minutes There you go, your own happy personal policy configurer/enforcer and as long as you have permission to those reg keys, your changes will 'win' _________________________ How to ask questions the smart way <-----------> Before you ask
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#66797 - 2002-06-12 11:59 PM Re: Auto Complete
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	kdyer, this quickie was the hklm part which determines where is stored the actual user key... and, it's not even the same thing. autocomplete registry is about appending webadresses and such. as I understood from KB topic. _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#66798 - 2002-06-13 02:39 AM Re: Auto Complete
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	Thanks DOC, for expaining it so eloquently. All the time I see how many ppl want to hack restrictions into the registry via the logon script. Sometimes there are permission issues. I wish I had a dollar for every one of Jens' posts related to this. Permissions never get in the way of policies. Sometimes it's a matter of timing. Policies are applied before the logon script so some settings that would only take effect afer a reboot if in the script may be immediate if by policy. Sometimes you're just giving away all the secrets. By having the reg hacks in clear text in the logon script, you educate the users in how to reverse them. Granted, someone quite knowledgable would be hard to control but still, you don't have to give away the store. And then there's Wintendo... well, if you've got Wintendos then you got what you deserve as well as my sympathy... _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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