Re: Disable ability to create shortcut

From: Alstersjo (Alstersjo_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/16/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:10:03 -0800

Hi Malke
Thanks for your response.
I use Win XP Pro. And it is in a school environment and it is for about 100
machines or so. But we are using clones so distribution shouldn't be any
problem.
//Henrik

"Malke" wrote:

> Alstersjo wrote:
>
> > Hi, does anybody knoe how to disallow users from creating a shortcut
> > on the desktop or startmenu?
> > //Henrik
>
> It depends on whether you have XP Pro or Home Edition. In XP Pro, you
> can set many fine-grained permissions using the Group Policy Editor
> (gpedit.msc). Be extremely careful with the Policy Editor - it is
> completely possible to lock *yourself* out of the system.
>
> If you only have Home Edition, look at MVP Doug Knox's utility, XP
> Security Console and see if it will do what you want. You can get it
> under his Utilities section at http://www.dougknox.com.
>
> You haven't given us any information about your system, or whether you
> want to do this on your home machine, a few office machines, or 3000
> machines. If you want to do this on a large scale like for a school
> computer lab or office workstations, consider using DeepFreeze from
> http://www.faronics.com/html/product.asp.
>
> Malke
> --
> MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
>

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