Prevent users from installing apps

From: Ryan (rlara@tycothermal.com)
Date: 03/11/03 

From: "Ryan" <rlara@tycothermal.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 08:11:27 -0800

Hello!

I would like to know if anyone out there knows how to
prevent users from installing applications on their
systems without placing the users in the "Users" local
group.

Currently my users have local administrative rights to
their machines (Their domain accounts have been added to
the local "Administrators" group)

What I would like to do is prevent users from installing
any software on their computers from here on out. I know
that by placing their accounts into the local
group "Users" I can prevent them from installing
software, unfortunately this is not an option. All of my
users need administrative rights to their systems in
order to successfully run certain applications that we
use.

I have looked online for answers only to come up short
each time. I have found many tweaks, reg hacks, GPO's etc
that limited users to a point but do not prevent ALL
installations from happening.

If you happen to know how to prevent users from
installing software on their system without removing
their local administrative rights then please let me
know. I'm thinking that there must be a reg hack or
program out there that can provide me the functionality
I'm looking for.

Thanks for your time!

Ryan Lara

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