Disable Print Screen Function Via VBS Script (By using GPO Startup/Shutdown Script)

Saugata — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:48:13 +0000

Another requirement, now customer need to disable default windows Print Screen function on all of their user desktop,

So, we started our searching again, and easily we able to find out how to disable print screen on windows by importing following registry.

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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,00,00,37,e0,00,00,54,00,\
00,00,00,00

So, again we start working to create a custom adm file. As because this is a HKLM key, so we need Privilege to import it into registry, and only way to do so is to apply some policy via Computer Configuration, whit which we can force policy on each computer not on individual user.

But suddenly we discover that ADM files don't support reg_binary values, so we have to find out any other alternatives.

Now we have to create tow .VBS file, one for to disable print screen and another for to re-enable print screen,

VBS Script for disable print screen,

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'Disable Print Screen Function
const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002
strKeyPath = "SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Keyboard Layout"
strComputer = "."
BinaryValueName = "Scancode Map"
iValues = Array(&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H03,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H37,&He0,&H00,&H00,&H54,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00)
Set oReg=GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv")
disablePS = oReg.SetBinaryValue(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,BinaryValueName,iValues)

VBS Script for re-enable print screen

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'Re-Enable Print Screen Function
const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002
strKeyPath = "SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Keyboard Layout"
strComputer = "." 
strStringValueName = "Scancode Map"
set objReg = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv")
enablePS = objReg.DeleteValue(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strStringValueName)

Now we can easily implement above two script via GPO by using system Startup/Shutdown script.

Thanks..

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Disable Print Screen Function Via VBS Script (By using GPO Startup/Shutdown Script)