Disable device manager windows 7

Click to select Enabled , and then click OK. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. All devices that have a question mark or an explanation point on them are not set up correctly or are having problems.

All devices with none of these additions to the icon are running - and doing so without any problems. Each user uses or doesn't use devices differently depending on the system setup. Nonetheless, some classes of devices are more commonly disabled than others. Knowing which ones will help you make your decision as to which devices you should disable.

The following classes of devices are frequently disabled:. These hardware devices are critical to the operation of your system. Follow these steps to disable your extra hardware devices: Click the Start menu, type devmgmt.

After the Device Manager loads, you can browse through your devices that are connected and currently running or disabled by browsing through the device type sections. To disable a device, right-click the device name, and then select Disable. To re-enable a device, right-click the device name and select Enable. This removes the check mark from the menu and re-enables the device.

The following classes of devices are frequently disabled: Network adapters: Especially on notebook computers, there is often more than one network device. Disabling the network devices that you do not use will definitely save you some booting time. The configuration I tested and it worked for my user - I'm a domain admin is the following:. To restrict them you have to remove them from local admin group. Sure the policy will be aplied but as local administrator the user can change the policy aplied from domain GPO.

Best practise:Remove users from local admin and delegate them administrative tasks regarding your needs. Not true! Suresh has to check if the policy is actually being applied to that machine, and correctly configured.

But who have local admin right they can change. Possibly there are other ways to do this, but this was the only way I found to completely block access to device manager.

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