Turn off the "Publish to Web" task for files and folders

Specifies whether the tasks "Publish this file to the Web," "Publish this folder to the Web," and "Publish the selected items to the Web," are available from File and Folder Tasks in Windows folders.

The Web Publishing Wizard is used to download a list of providers and allow users to publish content to the Web.

If you enable this setting, these tasks are removed from the File and Folder tasks in Windows folders.

If you disable or do not configure this setting, the tasks will be shown.

Supported on: At least Windows Server 2003 operating systems or Windows XP Professional with SP2

Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry PathSoftware\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Value NameNoPublishingWizard
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled Value1
Disabled Value0

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