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by peter_maryan

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Hello!

Anyone know if there is a way to lock it so when you have a classic startup menu in xp pro, when you double click on "Program Files" on the start menu it doesnt dump you into explorer looking at the whole drive.
This has been a problem at the district i work at, as they have no security, but then they can see the cdrom and install software and hack away.

Thanks!!

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by curacao_dejavu

You need to use group policy to accomplish this.
First make sure that the users are normal users and not power users or administrators. This will limit already their capabillity to install programs.
In addition if they are administrators and you implement the changes suggest they would be able to reverse it.

here are 2 links to keep you going.

http://tinyurl.com/6xdms

and

http://tinyurl.com/6bbpg

Leopold

by peter_maryan

I should have been more clear.

They are not Power Users or Admins, we are on a domain with active directory and group policy already.

by d'solve it

Hi,

Leopold's answer is right on the dot :-), though I may add that if you add a user on a default Win2K istallation, they can't install any programs. Also, if you have more than one partition, I would recommend that you 'hide' the system drive (usually C:) and move the Documents and Settings folder to another partition by a simple registry tweak.

This way you'd achieve what you want.

Good luck.

by peter_maryan

Maybe im not being clear.

We have hid the c drive, and we have disallowed installing
programs through group policy. Their user security level and
group policy is supposed to lock them down entirely. However.

If you use the windows xp classic theme, and that user clicks on
start, then double clicks on the work programs on the start
menu, it opens explorer, and shows them the root of the
program files folder. They then can access, the c:\ drive as it is
shown when they click back to only C:\. I think this may be a
windows bug.

Because if they use the windows xp theme, and double click on
program files nothing happens.

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