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I run the computer center of my Faculty and the problem is that users manage to change the Win7 taskbar position. I don't really know how they do this as far as I have applied many group policies that are specific to the taskbar (like locking it). I have also disallowed users from entering new registry keys or executing the command prompt (or employing scripts). They have regular user rights and many Win7 tweaking programs need administrator rights to make changes to the GUI. So in other words, the taskbar is locked, there is a policy that sets its position to the lower part of the screen, users can't see the control panel, add registry keys, use the command prompt and don't have admin. rights.

How do they keep moving the taskbar position to the upper part of the screen?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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I have no idea how they do it, but why would you want to lock it? If someone prefer the bar on the top and sets it that way for that user only, why bother? – Hennes Feb 9 at 16:52
The computers are for the use of the students. We like to keep all the desktops the same, I mean same backgrounds, themes, etc. so that's why we would like to have all the taskbars at the bottom of the screens. – diegocavazos53 Feb 9 at 22:05
Have you tried asking them how they changed the taskbar's position? – phw Feb 10 at 9:10

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Right-click the Task Bar, go to Start Task Manager. Click Options.

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You can't actually right click the taskbar, it is disallowed by GPO. And supposing you could, you would only have a bunch of grayed-out options. This is the reason why it puzzles me. – diegocavazos53 Feb 9 at 22:04

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