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| Thread ID: 51287 | 2004-11-16 11:21:00 | Restricting access on a Win2k profile | willie_M (5608) | Press F1 |
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| 292917 | 2004-11-16 11:21:00 | Sup guys, ummmm.... how can I stop applications such as explorer and my hotkey manager coming up in a certain profile. If I could just know what to edit in the registry for a profile I have made then that would be sweet. Cheers Robert |
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| 292918 | 2004-11-16 11:42:00 | Dunno, what OS? what do you logon as, a user, admin? what file system, FAT32, NTFS? Murray P Bedtime, see ya tomorrow. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 292919 | 2004-11-16 11:55:00 | I am admin in win2k on ntfs, and i have a restricted account which I want to stop explorer loading in... yeah.... All I need to know is how to find the certain user profiles in the regedit... Cheers willie_M |
willie_M (5608) | ||
| 292920 | 2004-11-16 23:45:00 | Have you thought about using Group Policy? | Berryb (654) | ||
| 292921 | 2004-11-17 23:55:00 | i've already told you what I want to do... and group policy is what i don't want to do... | willie_M (5608) | ||
| 292922 | 2004-11-18 02:05:00 | Presumably you can set up that account the way you want, then set the security for the group it's in so the user can't change it. You can probably make a special group if necessary. But I think you'll have to use something like a group policy to get that control. Even if you don't want to. ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 292923 | 2004-11-18 04:45:00 | why cant i just stop explorer loading at startup altogether.... surely it can't be that hard? A short trip to the registry shud do it.... failing that, how do I automatically have windows kill it after startup? like a script that is executed that acts like the "kill" command in linux....? Can I do that in windows? |
willie_M (5608) | ||
| 292924 | 2004-11-18 05:05:00 | Short trips to the registry can lead to long sessions repairing the OS. :_| I suppose you could have a process running looking for that user with an incarnation of Explorer, which then kills it. It would be a nasty, messy bit of coding, and it would not be easy. Why not try the Microsoft way? They have given you the way to do it. I kniow it works -- the computer I am sitting at runs only Internet Explorer. I can't change that. I can reboot the machine, but I can't do anything other than use Internet Explorer on it. There's even a book which you can download (free) from MS. I've mentioned it here ... "lockdown W2k" to the search will get it. I see that I gave "lockdown w2k server" as the search string for Google to get the link. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 292925 | 2004-11-18 05:18:00 | What about a windows explorer add in or replacement file manager. Many of them have added security or encyption features. Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 292926 | 2004-11-18 13:06:00 | >lockdown W2k I shall try this... Thank you for your help... |
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