One night I was curious about how the Group Policy Manager sets the policies using registry keys. The GUI displays detailed descriptions but not the backend registry key the target policy uses.
Of course, if you Google a policy you can end up finding the target registry value or have a look at the “C:\windows\policydefinitions” folder for the admx files. But I wanted to see for myself how this works behind the scenes. So, I used the API Monitor to monitor the APIs and check the values manually.
Let’s have a look at the policy where we can disable the right click.
The process is “mmc.exe”, the Microsoft Management Console. The Local Group Policy Editor – “gpedit.msc” is just one snap-in of it.
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