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by steve.parkhouse

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I have a peer to peer network working WXp to a broadband router which will have public access. What's the best solution to secure the network against misuse (remove Run, context menus, Network neighbourhood etc). Is there an off-the-shelf solution, or else is there a complete list of registry keys the for the job?

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by garydw

simple solution is the local policy editor.

This will let you do things like 'remove shutdown', You should also have the PC loogged in using a very tied down account to ensure that no one can break it.

The final thing I would do is ghost the setup some where so that it can easily be restored.
No matter how you tie something down some so-and-so will find a way to break it.

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Gary Williams.

by curacao_dejavu

Depends of the # of computers of your network.
You can use indeed the local policy.
However if you have about 10 or more pc's in your network I would rather suggest to install w2k server and control the policies from the server, which will propagate to the pc's.

A easy solution is also to use the ms tweakui utillity which has all the gui interface (no registry editing) for you.
The link is at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

And of course keep the users asusers, and not power users or administrator will also help that at the very least they can not change anything.

Leopold

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