Hello,
I'm having trouble getting Classic Shell to respect group policy settings. I am trying to use the native Windows Group Policy settings for the start menu, not the new Classic Shell application specific settings provided by the admx files. It appears that its intended for Classic Shell to support these settings, because I found this other post
http://www.classicshell.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1823 where its mention that: "Classic Shell respects the group policies that have an API to retrieve them:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb762534(v=vs.85).aspx".
But according to this msdn site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb762245%28v=vs.85%29.aspx the SHRestricted function and has not been supported since XP SP2.
So it appears the mechanism that Classic Shell is using to query for group policy settings does not work. As far as I can tell, the correct method is to just query the appropriate policy registry keys in both HKLM and/or HKCU. Here is a link to download the complete group policy settings reference guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=25250I hope that this can be fixed so you will continue to provide support for the native Windows start menu group policy settings, even though you are now providing application specific admx files.
Thanks.