Tuesday 11 May 2010

Disable EOA (Ease of Access) on the logon screen - Windows 2008

A client connecting to my Windows Terminal Server (2008 R2) somehow managed to activate the EOA button.

After reading a million forums - I finally decided to do the following:

Took ownership on the file: c:\windows\system32\utilman.exe 

Renaming the file to utilman999.exe

Now the user don't have access to that file and it CAN'T be called up.

How annoying............
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  1. Way9 July 2014 at 03:36

    Let's do it the brutal way:

    For Windows Server 2008 R2, open the admin command prompt and run:

    takeown /a /f %windir%\system32\sethc.exe

    takeown /a /f %windir%\system32\utilman.exe

    cacls %windir%\system32\sethc.exe /C /D Everyone

    cacls %windir%\system32\utilman.exe /C /D Everyone

    sethc.exe responsible for the sticky key dialog after hit shift 5 times.

    utilman.exe responsible for the dialog after pressing ease of access button.

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