Stop unwanted software installation by e

It won't stop all software installation, but you could disable the floppy and CD drives in BIOS settings, and lock the bios with a password.

Or, remove the floppy and CD drives, and install case locks.

Chas

Another solution would be to wintune the start-menu : unable the run command, delete all unwanted programs, do not let doscommand run etc...
This "packet" can even be downloaded to this pc.
This is wat we use in our library-public-pc's

Greetz
Mark

We use a product called Fortres 101. It locks the computer down. Only what is on the desktop can be run. It can be configured to not allow any software to be loaded. A great program.

http://www.fortres.com

There are 2 different ways to solve it:

Education and awareness of the users
including a record in their file that
they are not allowed to install software
themselves and the top reasons why you force this
policy.

Challenge the users withtechnology, locks, etc

For a smaller and steady amount of employees I suggest training. Bigger companies need technology mabye together with an awareness policy.

By the way - if your network has internet and or email, you dont need floppy drives...

Good luck

Wolfgang

there are ways which unwanted software in the PC. One way is to use the policy on the window platforms.

Alternative, you can take over the ownership in the Win NT and Win2k. So the administrator will have the right to do the installation and uninstall only.

Another solution is to create 2 partitions on the harddisk and C:\ as the Operating system and applications. The D:\ will be the user data. Backup the entire C:\ when the setup is complete and every week/month use the scheduler to restore back to C:\. So you don't have to worry about how many software the users install. Cos every week/month it will wipe it out.