Restrict user access but not administrator

From: Richard Hall (rhall4@frontiernet.net)
Date: 11/06/02


From: "Richard  Hall" <rhall4@frontiernet.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:37:57 -0800


contact me by email. I'll give you the answer to your
question.

have a great day

richard
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>I am setting up a standalone W2K Pro workstation to be
used by members of
>the public and am trying to lock it down.
>Using the Local policies in MMC I have removed all access
to drives, Control
>Panel, desktop setting etc., even preventing
shutdown/logoff.
>Unfortunately this is being applied to the Administrator
logon as well - not
>too useful when I need to update software etc - luckily I
saved the MMC
>console setting to the desktop so I can still access it!
>Is there a way to remove things like Run... Control Panel
etc etc from only
>'user' logons and not the Administrator account??
>
>Thanks in advance
>Graham Taylor
>
>
>.
>



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