Prevent customization of indexed locations in Control Panel

If enabled, Search and Indexing Options in Control Panel does not allow opening the Modify Locations dialog. Otherwise it can be opened. Disabled by default.

Supported on: Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 with Windows Search version 3.01, or any version of Microsoft Windows with Windows Search 4.0 or later

Registry Hive	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry Path	SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search
Value Name	PreventModifyingIndexedLocations
Value Type	REG_DWORD
Enabled Value	1
Disabled Value	0

search.admx

Administrative Templates (Computers)

Control Panel
- Personalization
- Regional and Language Options
  - Handwriting personalization
    - Turn off automatic learning
  - Block clean-up of unused language packs
  - Force selected system UI language to overwrite the user UI language
  - Restricts the UI language Windows uses for all logged users
- User Accounts
  - Apply the default user logon picture to all users
Network
Printers
Start Menu and Taskbar
- Pin Apps to Start when installed
- Start Screen Layout
System
Windows Components

Prevent customization of indexed locations in Control Panel

Administrative Templates (Computers)

Administrative Templates (Users)