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by pmederic

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How do i prevent a normal user from installing applications, accessing registry, changing backgrounds, etc in NT 4.0 workstation?

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by jdubrow

the easiest way of preventing this is to use a policy. I believe in NT it is called poledt. It is pretty straightforward and self explanatory...

by iphicles

well, you can simply put him/her in the USER group and he won't be able to install many programs (just make sure he doesn't have administrative rights). If you really wanna control which applications he can operate, change background, etc. the policy editor is the best bet. make sure you save it in the correct folder and name it ntconfig.pol (c:\winnt\system32\repl\import\scripts)

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