As the language bar is part on the office installation, i did not want to go fiddling with the installation properties incase it knocked anything else in the office install out of sync but i did need to remove it from 70+ citrix servers without much overhead.

I read an article recently on the citrix forums and it suggested that ctfmon.exe was the owner of the language bar, once i knew this i wrote a script to deny users access to this file, which in turn would block from running.

I decided to use xcacls as a command line utility, i used xcacls to straight out deny members of the users group (locally) to access the file, this is done like this:

xcacls.exe C:windowssystem32ctfmon.exe /E /d users /Y

if you are using windows 2000, you can copy the xcacls.exe to an network share and run it from there without any issue.

serversharexcacls.exe %SystemRoot%system32ctfmon.exe /E /d users /Y

and if you want to hit 60+ servers remotely, use psexec

psexec @servers.txt -u domainusername cmd /c “servernamectxutilsxcacls.exe %SystemRoot%system32ctfmon.exe /E /d users /Y”

Servers.txt would be in the same directory as psexec, and would contain the server names one per line.

I’ve uploaded the script here:

Update:

As of server 2008 / windows vista the above fix no longer works, this is due to the language bar being heavily integrated.

The following key controls the language bar in these operating systems:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftCTFLangBar

Showstatus (DWORD).

To hide the language bar, set the value of showstatus to 3.

This can be done using a mandatory profile or group policy as below: