How to Disable Sticky Keys on XenApp 6.5 to meet Audit requirement.

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Right-click Start and choose Run.
In the Run box, enter regedit and click OK or hit Enter.
Find this folder in the left pane: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Accessibility\\StickyKeys
Find the folder called Flags in the right pane and double-click it.
In the appeared Edit String box change Value data to 506.
Click OK.
Find this folder in the left pane: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Accessibility\\Keyboard Response
In the right pan find Flags. Double-click it and set the Value data to 122.
Click OK to save the changes.
Find this folder in the left pane: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Accessibility\\ToggleKeys folder
In the right pane find Flags. Double-click it and change its value to 58.
Click OK.
Close Registry Editor and restart your PC.

Reference : https://ugetfix.com/ask/how-to-disable-sticky-keys-on-windows/

ASKER

Thanks, guess I was seeing this, but thought there was more to it. Think I was just selecting the wrong type of GPO. Awe, these audits ;)

Thanks.

I used to use this GPO on XenApp 6, not sure if it still works

James, I used something very similar to that :P

Jennifer, if possible please add James to the accepted solutions for this question.

Thanks!

ASKER

Awesome thank you. I'm going to give that a shot.

ASKER

I applied your policy James and rebooted the server, and pulled an app specific to that server, but I can still execute the Sticky keys. Is there another policy that goes hand in hand with this one?

Thanks in advance.

There's not that I can recall, this was over 10 years ago though :-) I do have a copy of the entire GPO structure from the time, I will see if I can test it in the lab tomorrow (approaching midnight here unfortunately)

Is it published apps you're using or a published desktop? I recall this was on a published desktop when I used it. I'm wondering if on a published app the behaviour is different?

ASKER

Thanks for your continued help.

Hmm.. Yes we use published apps not published desktops. So, for a test I was using TextPad and then one of our custom apps. I can still pull up sticky keys.

I have looked and it is updating the registry on the systems I'm testing with under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive, so I know it's getting the policy.

ASKER

Found something else that suggests (https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX140219) to use the receiver.admx or receiver.adml that comes with Citrix Receiver. However; I am not able to import the template into Group Policy as it doesn't see it. It's in the default path. So an idea, but still trying to get the template or a variety to load into Windows 2008 R2 AD GP.

Any additional thoughts are appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Try the following manual process on your workstation and see if it will disable the sticky keys.. if it does then we may be able to get this resolved.

https://blog.pcrisk.com/windows/12938-cant-turn-off-sticky-keys