How to disable Internet Options using Group Policy Object?

Dear everybody,
Please tell me about how to disable Internet Options via group policy to Internet Options on Tool menu, Internet Options on Control Panel and Command control inetcpl.cpl?
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Hi,
The location of this GPO in Windows Server 2008 should be:
User Configuration\Administrative
Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\Browser menus
Enable the Group Policy “Tools
menu: Disable Internet Options… menu option”
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Leo Huang
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