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Prevent users from right click on the desktop

Does anyone know if I can prevent particular user or set of users from being to right click on the dekstop through windows group policy. I have found the following link to disable the right click for one system, but i want to apply this restriction on a set of computers inside my domain.

http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/160/

We have awindows 2003 domain & the client side is using windows xp pro.
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You can set that registry Key then farm out the reg key thorugh group policy
Distribute Registry Entries via Grop policy

On an Client PC (that has the admin tools installed) set up the registry key as required (HKLM, HKU or HKCR only)
Start > Run > dsa.msc
Launch the policy editor (right click Domain/OU> Properties> Group policy)
Navigate to, Computer configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Registry

Right click in the right hand pane > add Key
Navigate to the key you set up earlier.

How to add, modify, or delete registry subkeys and values by using a registration entries (.reg) file
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=310516
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Great; it worked... I found it although in windows 2003 it is located at the following location in the group policy.

User configuration|Administrative Templates|Windows Components|Windows Explorer|Remove Windows Explorer's default context menu

thanks for the hint anyway.