File Explorer
81 Group Policy settings under File Explorer. Browse the sub-folders and settings below.
Sub-folders
- Common Open File Dialog (4)
- Explorer Frame Pane (2)
- Previous Versions (12)
Settings
- Allow only per user or approved shell extensions
- Allow the use of remote paths in file shortcut icons
- Configure Windows Defender SmartScreen
- Disable binding directly to IPropertySetStorage without intermediate layers.
- Disable Known Folders
- Display confirmation dialog when deleting files
- Display the menu bar in File Explorer
- Do not allow Folder Options to be opened from the Options button on the View tab of the ribbon
- Do not apply the Mark of the Web tag to files copied from insecure sources
- Do not display the Welcome Center at user logon
- Do not move deleted files to the Recycle Bin
- Do not reinitialize a pre-existing roamed user profile when it is loaded on a machine for the first time
- Do not request alternate credentials
- Do not show the 'new application installed' notification
- Do not track Shell shortcuts during roaming
- Hide these specified drives in My Computer
- Hides the Manage item on the File Explorer context menu
- Location where all default Library definition files for users/machines reside.
- Maximum allowed Recycle Bin size
- Maximum number of recent documents
- No Computers Near Me in Network Locations
- No Entire Network in Network Locations
- Pin Internet search sites to the "Search again" links and the Start menu
- Pin Libraries or Search Connectors to the "Search again" links and the Start menu
- Prevent access to drives from My Computer
- Prevent users from adding files to the root of their Users Files folder.
- Remove "Map Network Drive" and "Disconnect Network Drive"
- Remove CD Burning features
- Remove DFS tab
- Remove File Explorer's default context menu
- Remove File menu from File Explorer
- Remove Hardware tab
- Remove Search button from File Explorer
- Remove Security tab
- Remove Shared Documents from My Computer
- Remove the Search the Internet "Search again" link
- Remove UI to change keyboard navigation indicator setting
- Remove UI to change menu animation setting
- Request credentials for network installations
- Set a default associations configuration file
- Set a support web page link
- Show files based on your account and cloud provider activity
- Show hibernate in the power options menu
- Show lock in the user tile menu
- Show sleep in the power options menu
- Start File Explorer with ribbon minimized
- Turn off Advanced Settings source integration in File Explorer
- Turn off caching of thumbnail pictures
- Turn off common control and window animations
- Turn off Data Execution Prevention for Explorer
- Turn off display of recent search entries in the File Explorer search box
- Turn off heap termination on corruption
- Turn off numerical sorting in File Explorer
- Turn off shell protocol protected mode
- Turn off shell protocol protected mode
- Turn off the caching of thumbnails in hidden thumbs.db files
- Turn off the display of snippets in Content view mode
- Turn off the display of thumbnails and only display icons on network folders
- Turn off the display of thumbnails and only display icons.
- Turn off Windows Key hotkeys
- Turn off Windows Libraries features that rely on indexed file data
- Turn on Classic Shell
- Verify old and new Folder Redirection targets point to the same share before redirecting