Which rights to use to enable program running and nothing more?

From: Per Westerlund (Westerlund_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/07/05 

Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 03:51:02 -0800

Hello,

I am trying to set up a computer with a local account (Guest account) that
has absolutely no rights exept to run the Office package (from shortcuts on
the desktop). Not to save files on any other media than floppy, but I am not
successfull.

When I set the rights it seems to be too strict and it doesn't work to start
the office applications. For instance, the templates in word dosn't load
properly, it doesn't work to save documents at all (even on floppy) in excel
because of 'no disc space'. Even giving write rights to folders like 'temp'
and reading rights to folders like 'win/system' and 'win/system32' etc does
not seem to help.

Which folders do i need to give permission to in order to complete the task?

Greatful for help

/Per

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