How to secure your desktop Icons and other settings?

Today tip is very useful particularly for home users who want to secure their default desktop icons and other desktop settings against unwanted changes that other users can make. For example changes in system desktop appearance, change icons title or image, themes, and screen saver as well as other display settings. Using registry editor, you can disable the save settings functionality to prevent the unwanted changes.

Follow the given steps to disable the save settings functionality for desktop:

To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.

Click Start button and type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next.

Here locate the location to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Here in right side panel, right click to create a new DWORD value with the name NoSaveSettings (it is case sensitive), then assign number 1 in value data box.

Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

But next time, if you want to enable right click functionality on desktop then simply change the value to 0 of data box or delete theNoSaveSettings DWORD item.