Lockdown 2000 to only run one program

You can use a Control Panel Program called TweakUI. It locks down 2k pretty well. If you do a Google on TweakUI you should be able to find the installer and instructions without any problems. It's made by microsoft so it should be on their site as well.

What about changing the shell?

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Shell=

Replace explorer.exe with the program you want.
I haven't done this since the old Windows 9x days so be sure to test this on a test machine first.

While I haven't used it on a W2K system, I don't believe that TweakUI has the lock-down features that you need.

Here is the link to Microsoft for TweakUI:

http://tinyurl.com/i4p

You can use group policies to set the limits that you want.Here a couple links to Microsoft pages on group policies:

http://tinyurl.com/ic4b

http://tinyurl.com/ic4z

http://tinyurl.com/2vl1

http://tinyurl.com/1vq2

Chas

Crteate an OU seperate OU for the workstation, and then control it with group policy. I know there is a key in the GPO that allow an Admin to allow only one program to run. ALternatively, you could use local group policy instead of AD based group policy to do this.

Here's the solution.
HOW TO: Restrict Users from Running Specific Windows Programs in Windows 2000

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;323525

You can also r-klik on the .exe of the programs and use the security option on it, and set it so that only you have access to it, so automatically it won't run under normal users.

Leopold

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